• Multimaterial and Flexible Devices Made by Fiber Drawing 

      Stefani, Alessio; Kuhlmey, Boris; Large, Maryanne; Hayashi, Juliano; Farajikhah, Syamak; Rukhlenko, Ivan; Runge, Antione; Fleming, Simon
      Published 2020
      The ability to co-process different materials at the same time in a thermal process opens up the possibility of scalable fabrication of volumetric multimaterial and multifunctional devices with operation spanning from the ...
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    • Pulse wave velocity measurement with soft-polymer optical fibers for wearable continuous blood pressure monitoring 

      Stefani, Alessio; Rukhlenko, Ivan; Ward, Rebecca; Prinable, Joseph; Large, Maryanne; Fleming, Simon
      Published 2020
      Soft-polymer fibers allow strong conformal contact with the skin and are extremely sensitive for deformation, despite high propagation loss. This enables pulse wave velocities measurements. Blood pressure can then be ...
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    • Thermally Drawn Biodegradable Fibers with Tailored Topography for Biomedical Applications 

      Farajikhah, Syamak; Runge, Antoine; Boumelhem, Badwi; Rukhlenko, Ivan; Stefani, Alessio; Sepidar, Sayyar; Innis, Peter; Fraser, Stuart; Fleming, Simon; Large, Maryanne
      Published 2020
      There is a growing demand for polymer fiber scaffolds for biomedical applications and tissue engineering. Biodegradable polymers such as polycaprolactone have attracted particular attention due to their applicability to ...
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    • Thermally Drawn Polycaprolactone Fibres with Customised Cross Sections 

      Farajikhah, Syamak; Rukhlenko, Ivan; Stefani, Alessio; Large, Maryanne; Chrzanowskic, Wojciech; Fleming, Simon
      Published 2019
      There is growing demand for biodegradable polymer fibres in tissue engineering and nerve regeneration. We demonstrate a scalable and inexpensive fabrication technique to produce polycaproactone (PCL) fibres using fibredrawing ...
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