POLYFLEX: Process to create flexible, structured & functional Polymeric material

Applications

All fields with specific surface characteristics requirements:

• Optical or electronical displays
• Smart coatings
• Wearable patches
• Mechanical or chemical sensors
• Optoelectrodes
• Microfluidic devices
• Platform for biophotonics

Description

New micro and nanoscale surface-structured polymers

Simple and low-cost process to generate a polymeric material with various features:

• Shape : thin or thick free-standing films, easy-to-handle blocks with one or several structured internal channels
• Surface properties : with or without layers of embedded particles functionalizable for specific applications
• Mechanical : flexible and designed in planar, cylindrical or less conventional geometries
• Transparent, biocompatible and possibly conductive

Benefits

• Suitable on a variety of substrates (metallic surface, glass, or even human skin)
• Easily insertable in a microfluidic circuit as a lab-on-a-chip support (when designed in a cylindrical geometry)
• Different sets of samples already made