Cupula-Inspired Hyaluronic Acid-Based Hydrogel Encapsulation to Form Biomimetic MEMS Flow Sensors

• Main Authors: Kottapalli, Ajay Giri Prakash, Bora, Meghali, Kanhere, Elgar, Asadnia, Mohsen, Miao, Jianmin, Triantafyllou, Michael S.
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Biomimetic Sensors; Hydrogels
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/87068; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44274
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Blind cavefishes are known to detect objects through hydrodynamic vision enabled by arrays of biological flow sensors called neuromasts. This work demonstrates the development of a MEMS artificial neuromast sensor that features a 3D polymer hair cell that extends into the ambient flow. The hair cell...