Research Assistant
I assisted Dr. Arda Gozen at Washington State University to advance soft matter electronics within the medical and consumer wearable industries. My role was focused on tensile testing samples that I designed to see what kind of modification we could make and how different materials effected our outcome. Not only did I design and test the samples but I also produced each one using 3D Printers and a vacuum chamber.
NOTE: Unfortunately I wasn’t thinking about my portfolio years ago and don’t have many photos.
Design
The design started with making the skeleton of the tensile sample. The goal of the skeleton wold be to control how stiff or flexible a sample could be. This was accomplished by changing the geometry and shape of the skeleton. On some I used a honeycomb patter while others I used rhombuses. The skeleton was printed using different brands of flexible materials. Once the skeleton was printed I would fill it with a two part resin elastomer, ecoflex. Ecoflex is a liquid rubber.
Analysis
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