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Author Archives: cindy.harnett@louisville.edu
New Project: Control of Local Curvature and Buckling for Multifunctional Textile-Based Robots
We’re starting a new project in October led by Nick Gravish at the University of California, San Diego. Together with Dan Aukes (Arizona State University) and Ross Hatton (Oregon State University), we will create and model soft robots that have virtual joints. In nature, some animals have limbs with nearly infinite degrees of freedom (elephant …
Paper accepted – Enzymes on Membranes
“Miniaturized Systems for Evaluating Enzyme Activity in Polymeric Membrane Bioreactors” is accepted for publication in Engineering in Life Sciences. Congratulations Shaf! The paper describes a small-scale platform for evaluating the activity of a laccase enzyme (top left) on membranes in a flow-through format (top right) using spectroscopy to detect a color change when the surface-bound …
Microrobots on the road
Underwater MEMS
Shaf gave a talk at the Nature Inspired Surface Engineering conference in early June. Ahead of the presentation, he needed to know how strong his MEMS* devices were so he put some micro cantilevers in a microfluidic channel. The tips of the cantilevers moved as the flow rate was increased. In this video, you can …