Mahmoud Tavakoli, CMU Portugal researcher and director of the Soft and Printed Microelectronics Laboratory of the Institute of Systems and Robotics (ISR) of Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra (FCTUC) was featured in Notícias Magazine.
In the article, Mahmoud Tavakoli speaks on the project “Liquid3D” that will enable printing of self-powered and recyclable robotic components, transitioning from battery-dependent and pollutable electronics.
In 2023, Tavakoli obtained a 2.8m€ grant from the European Research Council to develop “Liquid3D: 3D Printed, Bioinspired, Soft-Matter Electronics based on Liquid Metal Composites: Eco-Friendly, Resilient, Recyclable, and Repairable”, that aims to provide design freedom to scientists, allowing them to print futuristic soft electronics and soft machines. The project will develop a series of innovative printable composites based on liquid metals to print 3D functional cells for sensing, stimulating, processing, and storing energy that is entangled in a distributed system and in a three-dimensional architecture.
Within the CMU Portugal Program, Mahmoud Tavakoli has collaborated on several research projects: Stretchtonics, an entrepreneurial research initiative; WoW, a large-scale collaborative project led by Glintt; and the exploratory research project Exoskins. He is advisor to the Dual Degree students Manuel Carneiro and Marta Freitas.
Read the article here (in Portuguese).
CMU Portugal articles featuring Mahmoud Tavakoli:
- CMU Portugal researchers at UC awarded for their Innovative Research
- Mahmoud Tavakoli and Manuel Carneiro secure second place in the business idea competition ArriscaC
- Mahmoud Tavakoli features in Nature’s “Where I Work”
- CMU Portugal Researcher at Universidade de Coimbra wins a 2.8M€ ERC Grant Consolidator
- New techniques to reduce e-waste introduced under CMU Portugal project WoW
- Innovative Ink Allows to Print Flexible, Stretchable and Multi-Layer Circuits
- Paper supported under CMU Portugal project WoW published on Nature Communications Journal
- Stretchtronics Files a Patent for “e-tattoo”: The Health Tracker of the Future
- Electronic tattoos used in Health monitoring are being developed under the CMU Portugal Entrepreneurial Research Initiative (ERI) Stretchtonics
