Biomimetic Complex Systems for Soft Actuation and Neural Computing

  • Dipartimento di Fisica - Aula Magna
  • Seminario

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Paolo Milani
CIMAINA and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano, Milano, Italy

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The convergence of top-down microfabrication with bottom-up assembling of nano-objects makes compatible different length scales, architectures, materials, manufacturing methods. In particular the integration of nanoparticles and/or nanostructured layers on microfabricated platforms and polymeric substrates is the basis for the production of a novel class of devices capable of sensing, data and energy storage, actuation [1]. The use of supersonic cluster beam deposition (SCBD) and implantation (SCBI) is currently an enabling tool for the large-scale integration of nanoparticles and nanostructured films on microfabricated platforms and smart nanocomposites [1].
Here I present the synthesis, fabrication and characterization of different systems obtained with SCBD and SCBI such as electroactive soft actuators [2], electrodes for neurostimulation [3], cluster-assembled films with memristive switching properties [4], networks for fabrication of neural circuits [5]. These elements can be integrated in a single platform paving the way to the production of a new class of multifunctional devices.

[1] P. Milani, L.G. Bettini, Nano- and Micro-manufacturing with nanoparticles produced in the gas phase: an emerging tool for function and length scale integration in Y. Huttel (ed.), Gas-Phase Synthesis of Nanoparticles, Wiley-VCH (2017)
[2] Y. Yan, et al., Adv. Mater. 1606109 (2017)
[3] G. Corbelli, et al., Adv. Mater. 23, 4504 (2011)
[4] C. Minnai, et al., Sci. Rep. 7:7955 (2017)
[5] C. Schulte, et al., Acc. Chem. Res. 50, 231 (2017)