Biodegradable Materials and Devices
for Medical and Environmental Applications
Welcome to the Biodegradable Technologies team at ECTM
Our multidisciplinary team is developing biodegradable MEMS, a new class of micro-electro-mechanical systems made entirely of biodegradable materials, including sensors, actuators, and electric circuits, for medical and environmental applications.
Latest News
- 21/01/2024 Excellent conference at IEEE MEMS in Austin, Texas, with several students from ECTM.
16/01/2023 Congratulations to Elena, who received an award for best poster presentation at the Biocube Meeting 2023, which took place in Sestriere (Italian Alps) from 10 to 16 December!
- 12/12/2023 Nikita Gopakuma has successfully defended her master’s thesis, good luck with your PhD abroad, Nikita!
- 01/12/2023 Welcome to Ceren Kutucu and Maarten Lemmens who will start their MSc projects in our group. Ceren will work on a biodegradable sensor to assess wound healing, in collaboration with prof. Paddy French, and Maarten will work on a new approach for a biodegradable membrane for vascularized brainorganoids, with Elena. Furthermore, after their 3-months internship projects in our group, Wil and Tim are starting their MSc projects. Welcome to all!
- 01/12/2023 Dr. Boutry gives a Keynote lecture at the Brain-on-Chip hDMT Consortium meeting 2023, in Amersfoort, NL
- 01/11/2023 Friso Kahler and Elena Aprea gave a talks at hDMT (human Organ and Disease Model Technologies) Brain-on-Chip meeting at Radboudumc in Nijmegen, NL
- 01/11/2023 A warm welcome to Yaren Bathaei, starting her PhD in our group in collaboration with Prof. Kunal Masania to work on living materials. Welcome to ECTM, Yaren!
- 01/11/2023 Javad Bathaei joins our team as a PhD student working on the development of sensors for environment monitoring in the context of the 4TU HTSF Green Sensor project, welcome Javad!
- 31/10/2023 Conference IEEE Sensors, Vienna. Thanks to the organizers for this excellent conference and looking forward to next year
- 15/09/2023 Zhengwei Liao is back in our group to start his PhD in collaboration with Dr. Filipe Cardoso, on biodegradable sensors for a cardiac patch, welcome back Zhengwei!
- 01/09/2023 A warm welcome to MSc students, Pornpawee Uliss (Tim), Yukun Lian (Will), Saeed Mohammadi Nasr, Teresa Onorato, Edoardo Domenella, who will join our research team for projects lasting 6 to 12 months, we wish you much success with your MSc thesis work!
Latest Research Highlights
New functionalized biodegradable materials
Biodegradable technologies for Organ-on-Chip applications
Biodegradable technologies for medical implants
Biodegradable technologies for environment monitoring
News
- 05/07/2023 Our review article “Recent Advances in Magnetic Polymer Composites for BioMEMS: A Review” has been rewarded as the “Editor-in-Chief’s Choice Article”, congratulations! More details on the journal’s LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook account with @Materials_MDPI
- 15/06/2023 The review article of Zhengwei and Oualid was selected to be highlighted on the front page of Materials, congratulations!
- 01/06/2023 Let’s give a warm welcome to Feyza Pirim, who joined today the Biodegradable Technologies team as a PhD student. Feyza will be focusing on the development of biodegradable actuators. We wish Feyza a smooth beginning and great achievements in her new endeavor.
- 01/06/2023 Please join me in welcoming Elena Aprea, who is joining our Biodegradable Technologies team as a new PhD student. She will work on biodegradable microsystems and organ-on-chip. We wish Elena an excellent start and a lot of success in her new challenge.
- 30/05/2023 Mid-term presentations of Samhitha and Kiana at the ECTM colloquium, come and join us!
- 30/05/2023 PhD defense of Johannes Weichart, and presentation of our activities to the group of Micro- and Nanosystems and Prof. Christofer Hierold at ETH Zurich. Website
- 17/05/2023 Please check the new publication of Zhengwei and Oualid in Materials: Recent Advances in Magnetic Polymer Composites for BioMEMS: A Review
- 19-21/04/2023 Visit to the laboratories of Prof. Lorenzo Picinali at Imperial College London, UK, and workshop on biodegradable environmental audio monitoring systems, with EMPA colleagues from Switzerland. Thank you Prof. Picinali for hosting the meeting and for the fruitful discussion! Website
- 21-24/03/2023 The NOCI’s Troppo Breve IV retreat is held in Barchem, NL. Four days for participants in the Dutch Organ-on-a-Chip initiative to meet and discuss exciting scientific challenges at the interface between microfabrication technologies and biology
- 01/12/2023 Friso Kahler joins the Biodegradable Technologies team to work for his master project on a perfusion chamber with biodegradable properties for perfused brain organoids, welcome Friso!
- 13/12/2022 Christmas bowling & Drinks for the ECTM group in Delft, Merry Christmas!
- 7/12/2022 AM Community Meeting, The additive manufacturing community is growing stronger at TU Delft!
- 25/11/2022 MRS conference in Boston.
- 14/11/2022 Kiana Griffith joins our team in collaboration with Prof. Dante muratore to work on pressure sensors for intraocular monitoring, welcome to you, Kiana!
- 01/11/2022 Nikita Gopakumar joins our team to work for her master project on wireless pH and strain sensors. Warm welcome Nikita!
- 15/10/2022 Janine van Ingen is joining our Biodegradable Technologies team for her Bachelor Honor project to work for 2 years on cryogels 3D printing. Welcome Janine
- 10/10/2022 Samhitha Duvvuri joins the ECTM Biodegradable Technologies team to work on biodegradable microphones. Welcome Samhitha!
- 20-22/09/2022 Visit of the Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technologies) in Zurich, Switzerland. Thank you Prof. Kovac for the invitation and very fruitful discussions!
- 14/09/2022 Francesco and Matteo defended successfully today their master thesis in their home university in Torino. Congratulations to both of you!
- 08-09-2022 Annual symposium of the working group of electrochemistry in Wageningen.
- 01/09/2022 Maima Postma joins our team for her internship project to work on a 3D printer for biodegradable cryogels. Welcome Maima!
- 31/08/2022 Oualid defended with honors his master thesis. Warm congratulations!
- 26/08/2022 Zhengwei successfully defended his master thesis today. Congratulations!
- 23-26/03/2022 We met the other members of the NOCI Netherlands Organ-on-Chip group during the Troppo Breve retreat 2022 in Belgium. The occasion to learn more about the application of biodegradable technologies in organ-on-chip applications. Great talks and beautiful place, many thanks to the organizers.
- 18/02/2022 Sohrab Ashrab joins the Biodegradable Technologies team to perform his master thesis on biodegradable stretchable electrodes. Welcome Sohrab!
- 14/02/2022 Francesco Stallone is also joining the team as a visiting master student from EPFL/Torino, working on wireless pH sensors, welcome as well!
- 14/02/2022 Matteo Pirro will join the ECTM Biodegradable Technologies team as a visiting master student from EPFL/Torino, working on the mechanical stretching of neural cells and biodegradable electrodes. Welcome to you!
- 01/11/2021 Shriya Rangaswamy joins ECTM for her PhD, welcome!
- 01/11/2021 Oualid Zoumhani will join the Biodegradable Technologies team to work on soft actuators for pupil surgery for his master thesis. Welcome!
- 14/10/2021 Zhengwei Liao is the first master student to join the ECTM Biodegradable Technologies team, to work on biodegradable scaffolds for cells mechanical stimulation.
- 15/09/2021 Clementine Boutry Joins ECTM at TU Delft to lead the research on Biodegradable Technologies
- 21/01/2024 Our group will be present at IEEE MEMS in Austin, Texas, and we are looking forward!
- 01/12/2023 Welcome to Ceren Kutucu and Maarten Lemmens who will start their MSc projects in our group. Ceren will work on a biodegradable sensor to assess wound healing, in collaboration with prof. Paddy French, and Maarten will work on a new approach for a biodegradable membrane for vascularized brainorganoids, with Elena. Furthermore, after their 3-months internship projects in our group, Wil and Tim are starting their MSc projects. Welcome to all!
- 01/12/2023 Dr. Boutry gives a Keynote lecture at the Brain-on-Chip hDMT Consortium meeting 2023, in Amersfoort, NL
- 01/11/2023 Friso Kahler and Elena Aprea gave a talks at hDMT (human Organ and Disease Model Technologies) Brain-on-Chip meeting at Radboudumc in Nijmegen, NL
- 01/11/2023 A warm welcome to Yaren Bathaei, starting her PhD in our group in collaboration with Prof. Kunal Masania to work on living materials. Welcome to ECTM, Yaren!
- 01/11/2023 Javad Bathaei joins our team as a PhD student working on the development of sensors for environment monitoring in the context of the 4TU HTSF Green Sensor project, welcome Javad!
- 31/10/2023 Conference IEEE Sensors, Vienna. Thanks to the organizers for this excellent conference and looking forward to next year
- 15/09/2023 Zhengwei Liao is back in our group to start his PhD in collaboration with Dr. Filipe Cardoso, on biodegradable sensors for a cardiac patch, welcome back Zhengwei!
- 01/09/2023 A warm welcome to MSc students, Pornpawee Uliss (Tim), Yukun Lian (Will), Saeed Mohammadi Nasr, Teresa Onorato, Edoardo Domenella, who will join our research team for projects lasting 6 to 12 months, we wish you much success with your MSc thesis work!