Highlights in 2021

06/2021	Paper featured as a back cover page of Advanced Functional Materials
	Our paper on the realization of flexible magnetoreceptors with tunable intrinsic logic for on-skin touchless human-machine interfaces is highlighted with a back cover page of Advanced Functional Materials. Artificial magnetoception, i.e., electronically expanding human perception to detect magnetic fields, is a new and yet unexplored way for interacting with our surroundings. Here, we present skin-compliant touchless interactive devices based on spin-valves with out-of-plane sensitivity to magnetic fields. These devices reveal tunable logic characteristics, as needed for intuitive, energy efficient and insensitive to external magnetic disturbances magnetoreceptive human-machine interfaces. This work is a result of a fruitful cooperation between the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V., Università Politecnica delle Marche (group of Prof. Gianni Barucca), Politecnico di Milano (group of Prof. Christian Rinaldi), University of Augsburg (group of Prof. Manfred Albrecht), and CNR Istituto di Struttura della Materia (group of Dr. Gaspare Varvaro). P. Makushko, E. S. Oliveros Mata, G. S. Cañón Bermúdez, M. Hassan, S. Laureti, C. Rinaldi, F. Fagiani, G. Barucca, N. Schmidt, Y. Zabila, T. Kosub, R. Illing, O. Volkov, I. Vladymyrskyi, J. Fassbender, M. Albrecht, G. Varvaro, and D. Makarov Flexible magnetoreceptor with tunable intrinsic logic for on-skin touchless human-machine interfaces Adv. Funct. Mater. 31, 2101089 (2021). URL PDF

06/2021

Paper featured as a back cover page of Advanced Functional Materials

Our paper on the realization of flexible magnetoreceptors with tunable intrinsic logic for on-skin touchless human-machine interfaces is highlighted with a back cover page of Advanced Functional Materials.

Artificial magnetoception, i.e., electronically expanding human perception to detect magnetic fields, is a new and yet unexplored way for interacting with our surroundings. Here, we present skin-compliant touchless interactive devices based on spin-valves with out-of-plane sensitivity to magnetic fields. These devices reveal tunable logic characteristics, as needed for intuitive, energy efficient and insensitive to external magnetic disturbances magnetoreceptive human-machine interfaces.

This work is a result of a fruitful cooperation between the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V., Università Politecnica delle Marche (group of Prof. Gianni Barucca), Politecnico di Milano (group of Prof. Christian Rinaldi), University of Augsburg (group of Prof. Manfred Albrecht), and CNR Istituto di Struttura della Materia (group of Dr. Gaspare Varvaro).

P. Makushko, E. S. Oliveros Mata, G. S. Cañón Bermúdez, M. Hassan, S. Laureti, C. Rinaldi, F. Fagiani, G. Barucca, N. Schmidt, Y. Zabila, T. Kosub, R. Illing, O. Volkov, I. Vladymyrskyi, J. Fassbender, M. Albrecht, G. Varvaro, and D. Makarov
Flexible magnetoreceptor with tunable intrinsic logic for on-skin touchless human-machine interfaces
Adv. Funct. Mater. 31, 2101089 (2021). URL PDF

06/2021	Paper featured as a cover page of Advanced Materials
	Our paper on the realization of reconfigurable magnetic origami actuators with on-board sensing is highlighted with a cover page of Advanced Materials. We report on magnetic origami actuators equipped with highly flexible magnetic field sensors allowing to monitor the shape of the actuator and detect its magnetization state. The on-board magnetic field sensors enable feedback controls and guided assembly. These actuators are based on composite films of ferromagnetic microparticles embedded in shape-memory polymer films. Photothermal heating from light and applied magnetic fields enable on-demand reconfigurability. This work is a result of a fruitful cooperation between the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V., Elon University (Prof. Benjamin A. Evans) and North Carolina State University (group of Prof. Joseph B. Tracy). M. Ha, G. S. Cañón Bermúdez, J. A.-C. Liu, E. S. Oliveros Mata, B. A. Evans, J. B. Tracy, and D. Makarov Reconfigurable magnetic origami actuators with on-board sensing for guided assembly Adv. Mater. 33, 2008751 (2021). URL PDF

06/2021

Paper featured as a cover page of Advanced Materials

Our paper on the realization of reconfigurable magnetic origami actuators with on-board sensing is highlighted with a cover page of Advanced Materials.

We report on magnetic origami actuators equipped with highly flexible magnetic field sensors allowing to monitor the shape of the actuator and detect its magnetization state. The on-board magnetic field sensors enable feedback controls and guided assembly. These actuators are based on composite films of ferromagnetic microparticles embedded in shape-memory polymer films. Photothermal heating from light and applied magnetic fields enable on-demand reconfigurability.

This work is a result of a fruitful cooperation between the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V., Elon University (Prof. Benjamin A. Evans) and North Carolina State University (group of Prof. Joseph B. Tracy).

M. Ha, G. S. Cañón Bermúdez, J. A.-C. Liu, E. S. Oliveros Mata, B. A. Evans, J. B. Tracy, and D. Makarov
Reconfigurable magnetic origami actuators with on-board sensing for guided assembly
Adv. Mater. 33, 2008751 (2021). URL PDF

03/2021	Paper featured with a frontispiece of Advanced Materials
	Highly compliant electronics, naturally conforming to human skin, represent a paradigm shift in the interplay with our surroundings. Solution-processable printing technologies are yet to be developed to comply with extreme requirements to mechanical conformability of on-skin appliances. Here, we demonstrate the first highly-compliant, printable and stretchable giant magnetoresistive (GMR) sensors capable of detection in low magnetic field and sustaining high-performance magneto-resistive sensing under extreme mechanical deformation of up to 16 µm of bending radii and 100% of stretching state. These printable giant magnetoresistive sensors exhibit 2 orders of magnitude boost in sensitivity to small magnetic field (0.88 mT) with excellent mechanical compliance in comparison with state-of-the-art printable magnetic field sensors. We feature the potential of our highly-compliant and printable magnetoresistive sensors in augmented reality settings, where sensor-functionalized fingers conducts remote and touchless controls of virtual objects manageable for scrolling electronic documents and zooming maps under tiny permanent magnet. M. Ha, G. S. Cañón Bermúdez, T. Kosub, I. Mönch, Y. Zabila, E. S. Oliveros Mata, R. Illing, Y. Wang, J. Fassbender, and D. Makarov Printable and Stretchable Giant Magnetoresistive Sensors for Highly Compliant and Skin-Conformal Electronics Adv. Mater. 33, 2005521 (2021). URL PDF

03/2021

Paper featured with a frontispiece of Advanced Materials

Highly compliant electronics, naturally conforming to human skin, represent a paradigm shift in the interplay with our surroundings. Solution-processable printing technologies are yet to be developed to comply with extreme requirements to mechanical conformability of on-skin appliances. Here, we demonstrate the first highly-compliant, printable and stretchable giant magnetoresistive (GMR) sensors capable of detection in low magnetic field and sustaining high-performance magneto-resistive sensing under extreme mechanical deformation of up to 16 µm of bending radii and 100% of stretching state. These printable giant magnetoresistive sensors exhibit 2 orders of magnitude boost in sensitivity to small magnetic field (0.88 mT) with excellent mechanical compliance in comparison with state-of-the-art printable magnetic field sensors. We feature the potential of our highly-compliant and printable magnetoresistive sensors in augmented reality settings, where sensor-functionalized fingers conducts remote and touchless controls of virtual objects manageable for scrolling electronic documents and zooming maps under tiny permanent magnet.

M. Ha, G. S. Cañón Bermúdez, T. Kosub, I. Mönch, Y. Zabila, E. S. Oliveros Mata, R. Illing, Y. Wang, J. Fassbender, and D. Makarov
Printable and Stretchable Giant Magnetoresistive Sensors for Highly Compliant and Skin-Conformal Electronics
Adv. Mater. 33, 2005521 (2021). URL PDF

01/2021	Best poster prize for Dr. Oleksandr Pylypovskyi
	Dr. Oleksandr Pylypovskyi was awarded the best poster prize at the 736. WE-Heraeus-Seminar "Magnetism at the Nanoscale: Imaging - Fabrication - Physics", which was held online in Bad Honnef, Germany for his work "Geometrically driven chiral effects in curvilinear antiferromagnetic spin chains". Our warmest congratulations to Oleksandr! The original work is published here: O. V. Pylypovskyi, D. Y. Kononenko, K. V. Yershov, U. K. Rößler, A. V. Tomilo, J. Fassbender, J. van den Brink, D. Makarov, and D. D. Sheka Curvilinear One-Dimensional Antiferromagnets Nano Letters 20, 8157 (2020). URL

01/2021

Best poster prize for Dr. Oleksandr Pylypovskyi

Dr. Oleksandr Pylypovskyi was awarded the best poster prize at the 736. WE-Heraeus-Seminar "Magnetism at the Nanoscale: Imaging - Fabrication - Physics", which was held online in Bad Honnef, Germany for his work "Geometrically driven chiral effects in curvilinear antiferromagnetic spin chains". Our warmest congratulations to Oleksandr!

The original work is published here:

O. V. Pylypovskyi, D. Y. Kononenko, K. V. Yershov, U. K. Rößler, A. V. Tomilo, J. Fassbender, J. van den Brink, D. Makarov, and D. D. Sheka
Curvilinear One-Dimensional Antiferromagnets
Nano Letters 20, 8157 (2020). URL

01/2021	Paper featured as a cover page of Advanced Intelligent Systems
	Actuation-assisted bioanalysis represents an emerging application of micromachines, including microactuators, motors, and microrobotic devices. Here, micromachines consisting of tailorable microcompartments are synthesized by microfluidics-directed assembly. In addition to controlling the geometric parameters of the compartments, a novel emulsion fission approach is devised to precisely allocate the magnetic content in between the compartments of the dimer structures. This unlocks a couple of new degrees of freedom to engineer magnetic coupling in discrete magnetic structure assemblies and uncovers a series of multifunctional microactuators for complex and dynamic bioanalysis. This work is a result of a fruitful cooperation between the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V., The University of Technology Sydney (group of Dr. Gungun Lin and Prof. Dayong Jin) and State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (group of Prof. Jun Lin). G. Lin, Y. Liu, G. Huang, Y. Chen, D. Makarov, J. Lin, Z. Quan, and D. Jin 3D Rotation-Trackable and Differentiable Micromachines with Dimer-Type Structures for Dynamic Bioanalysis Advanced Intelligent Systems 3, 2000205 (2021). URL PDF

01/2021

Paper featured as a cover page of Advanced Intelligent Systems

Actuation-assisted bioanalysis represents an emerging application of micromachines, including microactuators, motors, and microrobotic devices. Here, micromachines consisting of tailorable microcompartments are synthesized by microfluidics-directed assembly. In addition to controlling the geometric parameters of the compartments, a novel emulsion fission approach is devised to precisely allocate the magnetic content in between the compartments of the dimer structures. This unlocks a couple of new degrees of freedom to engineer magnetic coupling in discrete magnetic structure assemblies and uncovers a series of multifunctional microactuators for complex and dynamic bioanalysis.

This work is a result of a fruitful cooperation between the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V., The University of Technology Sydney (group of Dr. Gungun Lin and Prof. Dayong Jin) and State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (group of Prof. Jun Lin).

G. Lin, Y. Liu, G. Huang, Y. Chen, D. Makarov, J. Lin, Z. Quan, and D. Jin
3D Rotation-Trackable and Differentiable Micromachines with Dimer-Type Structures for Dynamic Bioanalysis
Advanced Intelligent Systems 3, 2000205 (2021). URL PDF