Manel Puig-Vidal

TL;DR: High-speed force spectroscopy is developed to unfold titin at velocities reached by simulation (~4 millimeters per second) and found that a small β-strand pair of an immunoglobulin domain dynamically unfolds and refolds, buffering pulling forces up to ~100 piconewtons.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a model able to predict the energy harvesting capabilities of an ionic polymer metal composites (IPMCs) material working in air by using the vibration transmission theory of an Euler?Bernoulli cantilever IPMC beam.

TL;DR: The goal is to establish a small cluster of micro robots equipped with on-board electronics, sensors and wireless power supply, and to keep a AFM tool on micro-robot a specific tip with integrated piezoresistance, instead of the classical laser beam methodology, is validated for force measurement.

TL;DR: The concept and design of a power-conditioning circuit for an autonomous low-power system-in-package (SiP) and the simulated and experimental results of the developed integrated power circuits, which are formed by a rectifier and a low- power bandgap reference voltage source to define the threshold voltage for the closed-loop regulation process, are shown.

TL;DR: A cooperative medium access control protocol that adapts its operation to the energy harvesting conditions in wireless body area networks (WBANs) and exploits the EH information in order to set an idle time that allows the relay nodes to charge their batteries and complete the cooperation phase successfully.