Stauffer, Flurin

Current Research

Stretchable micro-electrode arrays (sMEA) for epidural spinal cord stimulation in paralyzed rats for restoring locomotion.

Research Interests

Implantable devices, neuroprostheses, stretchable micro-electrode arrays (sMEA), functional electrical stimulation (FES)

Publications

• F. Stauffer and K. Tybrandt, “Bright Stretchable Alternating Current Electroluminescent Displays Based on High Permittivity Composites,” Adv. Mater., Jun. 2016.

• K. Tybrandt, F. Stauffer, and J. Vörös, “Multilayer Patterning of High Resolution Intrinsically Stretchable Electronics.,” Sci. Rep., vol. 6, p. 25641, Jan. 2016.

• F. Stauffer, V. Martinez, M. O. Adagunodo, C. Forro, J. Vörös, and A. Larmagnac, “Stretchable Silver Nanowire-Elastomer Composite Microelectrodes with Tailored Electrical Properties.,” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, vol. 7, no. 24, pp. 13467–13475, Jun. 2015.

• P. Dörig, D. Ossola, A. M. Truong, M. Graf, F. Stauffer, J. Vörös, and T. Zambelli, “Exchangeable Colloidal AFM Probes for the Quantification of Irreversible and Long-Term Interactions.,” Biophysical journal, vol. 105, no. 2, pp. 463–72, Jul. 2013.

Oral Presentations

• Soft & Stretchable Electronics for Interfacing Muscle & Nervous Tissue
  F. Stauffer, Klas Tybrandt, Marc Schneider, Vincent Martinez, Martin Schwab, Thomas Kessler, Janos Vörös
  BMT 2016, "Dreiländertagung", Swiss, Austrian 
and German Societies of Biomedical Engineering, October 2016, Basel, Switzerland

• Conductive Elastomers For Implantable Compliant Microelectrode Arrays
  F. Stauffer, V. Martinez, M. Adagunodo, J. Vörös, A. Larmagnac
  BioEL 2015, 2nd International Winterschool on Bioelectronics, March 2015, Kirchberg in Tirol, Austria

Poster Presentations

• Soft & Stretchable Micro-Electrode Arrays for Interfacing Muscle & Nervous Tissue
  F. Stauffer, K. Tybrandt, V. Martinez, M. Thielen, S. Lienemann, J. Zhang, A. Larmagnac, J. Vörös
  Soft Materials Day 2015, November 2015, Zurich, Switzerland

• Conductive Elastomer Based Microelectrode Arrays For Spinal Cord Stimulation
  F. Stauffer, V. Martinez, K. Tybrandt, A. Larmagnac, J. Vörös
  Nano-Tera Annual Plenary Meeting 2015, May 2015, Bern, Switzerland

• Micro Patterned Conductive Elastomers Based On Silver Nanowire - PDMS
  F. Stauffer, V. Martinez, M. Adagunodo, J. Vörös, A. Larmagnac
  7th International IEEE EMBS Neural Engineering Conference, 
April 2015, Montpellier, France

• Micro Patterned Silver Nanowire - PDMS Composite
  F. Stauffer, V. Martinez, M. Adagunodo, J. Vörös, A. Larmagnac
  MRS Spring Meeting, 
April 2015, San Francisco, USA

• Towards Stretchable High-Density Multielectrode Arrays
  F. Stauffer, V. Martinez, M. Adagunodo, J. Vörös, A. Larmagnac
  9th International Meeting on 
Substrate-Integrated Microelectrode Arrays (MEA Meeting 2014), 
July 2014, Reutlingen, Germany

• Characterization of silver nanowire based conductive elastomers for use in biomedical applications
  F. Stauffer, V. Martinez, M. Adagunodo, J. Vörös, A. Larmagnac
  International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN 2014), June 2014, ETH Zurich

• A conductive elastomeric composite based on silver nanowires for stretchable high-density leads.
  F. Stauffer, V. Martinez, M. Adagunodo, J. Vörös, A. Larmagnac

  10th International Conference on Organic Electronics 2014, June 2014, Modena, Italy

• Conductive elastomer based on silver nanowire networks embedded in silicone.
  F. Stauffer, V. Martinez, M. Adagunodo, J. Vörös, A. Larmagnac

  MaP Graduate Symposium & MaP Award Ceremony 2014, June 2014, ETH Zurich

• Compliant Electrodes For Epidural Spinal Cord Stimulation
  F. Stauffer, A. Hirsch, I. Minev, V. Martinez, A. Larmagnac, J. Vörös, S. Lacour

  Nano-Tera Annual Plenary Meeting 2014, May 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland

• Lithography Processable Nanowire-PDMS Composite as Conductive Leads for Stretchable Microelectrode Arrays for Epidural Spinal Cord Stimulation
  Mohammed Adagunodo, Flurin Stauffer, Vincent Martinez, Janos Vörös, Alexandre Larmagnac
  NanoBioTech 2013, 18-20 November 2013, Montreux, CH

• Patterned Silver Nanowire-PDMS Composite as Highly Stretchable Lead Material
  Flurin Stauffer, Mohammed Adagunodo, Vincent Martinez, Janos Vörös, Alexandre Larmagnac
  Flex&Stretch 2013, 11-13 November 2013, Eindhoven, NL

Previous Research

• Master Thesis: Evaluation of High-Temperature Co-Fired Ceramic (HTCC) Hermetic Packages for Lifelong Implanted Electronic Devices
  Implanted Devices Group, University College London
  Supervisors: Prof. Nick Donaldson, Dr. Anne Vanhoest
• Semester Thesis: Calibrating flow through a FluidFM Nanosyringe
  Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, ETH Zurich
  Supervisors: Prof. Janos Vörös, Dr. Pablo Dörig

Education

• MSc Biomedical Engineering, ETH Zürich
• BSc Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, ETH Zürich

Available Student Projects

Interested in neuroprosthetics? Just drop by my office to discuss possible semester or master projects.