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High Viscosity Liquid Processing for Tunable Graded Foams
THE CHALLENGE
The key challenge in developing liquid metal–elastomer composites for soft robotics and wearable electronics lies in achieving consistent, scalable manufacturing of these promising but technically complex materials. While direct ink writing offers a path to produce flexible, conductive structures, current methods struggle with...
Published: 7/21/2025
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Inventor(s): Michael Bartlett, Eric Markvicka, Spencer Pak
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Electronics
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Sensorized Adhesive Skins for Underwater Grasping of Objects
THE CHALLENGE
Underwater manipulation is essential for tasks like marine research, infrastructure repair, environmental monitoring, and resource extraction—where precise, reliable interaction with submerged objects is critical yet technically challenging. Currently, there is a lack of reliable, efficient, and adaptable gripping technologies...
Published: 7/3/2025
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Inventor(s): Michael Bartlett, Ravi Tej Anand Tutika, Eric Markvicka
Keywords(s):
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Chemicals/Materials
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Additive Manufacturing of Functional Emulsions
THE CHALLENGE
The core challenge in advancing additive manufacturing for soft composite materials lies in the inability to precisely control the internal microstructure during production—a critical factor that directly impacts a material’s thermal, electrical, and mechanical performance. This limits the scalability and reliability of manufacturing...
Published: 6/25/2025
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Inventor(s): Michael Bartlett, Ravi Tej Anand Tutika, Eric Markvicka, Aaron Haake
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering
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Increased Control Over Additive Manufacturing of Functional Emulsions
THE CHALLENGE
Functional emulsions are an emerging material architecture that can be cured into an elastomer composite with embedded liquid phase fillers. Techniques to control local composite microstructures and material composition in emulsions, which ultimately govern material properties and performance of the cured elastomer composite, are lacking.
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Published: 6/26/2025
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Inventor(s): Michael Bartlett, Ravi Tej Anand Tutika, Gwyneth Schloer, Eric Markvicka, Aaron Haake
Keywords(s):
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Additive Manufacturing, EXPERIMENT--DO NOT USE
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