STORM-BOTS WORKSHOP
"LCE-BASED SOFT ROBOTICS: FROM MATERIALS TO FUNCTIONS"
STORM-BOTS Workshop 1 - 3 February 2024
The STORM-BOTS Workshop, organised by CSIC and held at Etopia (Avda. Ciudad de Soria 8), Zaragoza, from 1 to 3 February 2024, is a training and networking activity of the STORM-BOTS project.
STORM-BOTS is a Marie Skłodowska Curie European Training Network launched in 2021 which explores the field of soft robotics and LCE-based advanced materials through a state-of-the-art training programme for 13 young researchers. Since then, the 13 Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs) have been involved in the project, working on cutting-edge research and acquiring the necessary skills for a future career in the field of liquid crystal-based responsive actuators and surfaces.
During the first two days of the Workshop (1-2 Feb), the STORM-BOTS ESRs will present their projects and research results to all participants, and high-level and renowned researchers in the field of LC-based soft robotics research will deliver invited lectures.
The activities of 1 and 2 February are open to the research community. External participants are welcome after registration – free of charge. See you soon in Zaragoza!
*Registration is free of charge, open until 29 January at 14:00 CET.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 956150.
Agenda - Days 1 & 2 - Open to all participants
09:00 – 09:30 Registration
09:30 – 09:45 Welcome
Session 1
09:45 – 10:35 Ivan Smalyukh (Univ. of Colorado Boulder) | Liquid crystal topology for steering light and shaping elastomeric metamaterials
10:35 – 10:55 Duygu Sezen Polat (ESR-9), Eindhoven University of Technology | Spontaneous snap-through of strongly buckled liquid crystalline networks
10:55 – 11:15 Mathis Lagier (ESR-1), Eindhoven University of Technology | Switchable and responsive surfaces for communication through haptic feedback
11:15 – 12:00 Coffee break
Session 2
12:00 – 12:50 José Luis Serrano (Univ. de Zaragoza – INMA) | Multifunctional Materials Based on Mesogenic Structures that mimic Microscopic Tools and Devices
12:50 – 13:10 Rahul Singh Yadav (ESR-2), Universidad de Zaragoza – INMA | A chemo- and light-responsive liquid crystal elastomer by 3D printing
Session 3
15:00 – 15:50 Mahdi Bodaghi (Nottingham Trent Univ.) | 4D Printing Soft Meta-Robots for Sustainable Futures
15:50 – 16:10 Michał Zmyślony (ESR-7), University of Cambridge | Can every director pattern be printed?
16:10 – 16:30 Tommaso Da Col (ESR-13), PRECEYES | Soft Robotics Potential for Eye Surgery
16:30 – 17:10 Coffee break
17:10 – 17:30 Reza Norouzikudiani (ESR-6), Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna | Multi-physics modeling for inducing self-oscillations in photoactive liquid crystal elastomers beam
17:30 – 17:50 Mert Orhan Astam (ESR-8), Eindhoven University of Technology | Liquid crystal elastomers as electrical components: controlled or the controller?
09:00 – 09:30 Registration – get together
Session 4
09:30 – 10:20 Taylor Ware (Texas A&M Univ.) | Liquid Crystal Elastomer Structures that Morph, Assemble and Disassemble
10:20 – 10:40 Lovish Gulati (ESR-5), Max Planck Institute for Medical Research – MPG | 3D director alignment of liquid crystalline structures using magnetic fields
10:40 – 11:00 Paolo Sartori (ESR-4), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas – INMA | Photochemically Induced Propulsion of a Four-Dimensional Printed Liquid Crystal Elastomer Biomimetic Swimmer
11:00 – 11:40 Coffee break
11:40 – 12:00 Giulia Spallanzani (ESR-12), Holst Centre – TNO | Electrically driven LCE actuator matrix
12:00 – 12:20 Yasaman Nemati (ESR-10), Tampere University | Harnessing Magneto-Photo responsiveness and bioinspired Light-Driven Motion in Liquid Crystal Elastomers
12:20 – 13:30 Group photo at Einstein statue & Zaha Hadid Bridge
Session 5
15:00 – 15:50 Devin Roach (Oregon State Univ.) | Freeform Printing and Voxel-Level Deformation Control Strategies for Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators
15:50 – 16:10 Zixuan Deng (ESR-11), Tampere University | Light-fueled soft robotics: going under water
16:10 – 16:30 Erick René Espíndola Pérez (ESR-3), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas – INMA | Multimodal and Multistimuli 4D-Printed Magnetic Composite Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators
Agenda
Agenda subject to change, please check regularly.
Speakers & Topics
Prof Mahdi Bodaghi (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
4D Printing Soft Meta-Robots 4 Sustainable Futures
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Dr Taylor Ware (Texas A&M University, US)
Liquid Crystal Elastomer Structures that Morph, Assemble, and Disassemble
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Prof José Luis Serrano (Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón – Universidad de Zaragoza, ES)
Multifunctional Materials Based On Mesogenic Structures That Mimic Macroscopic Tools And Devices
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Prof Ivan Smalyukh (University of Colorado Boulder, US)
Liquid crystal topology for steering light and shaping elastomeric metamaterials
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Dr Devin J Roach (Oregon State University, US)
Freeform Printing and Voxel-Level Deformation Control Strategies for Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators
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