Scientific contributions 2025

Journal Articles

DEyeA: Artificial Muscles for the Restoration of Eye Blinking Following Facial Paralysis (Adv. Mater. Technol. 12/2025)

S. Konstantinidi; M. Koenigsdorff; P. Martin; A. Benouhiba; Y. Civet et al. 

Advanced Materials Technologies. 2025. Vol. 10, num. 12. DOI : 10.1002/admt.202570065.

Towards Artificial Muscle Implants: Structured Reinforcement of Dielectric Elastomers

S. Konstantinidi; M. Koenigsdorff; A. O. Salazar; A. Benouhiba; T. Martinez et al. 

SMART MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES. 2025. Vol. 34, num. 5. DOI : 10.1088/1361-665X/adcf64.

Design and Characterization of an Equibiaxial Multi-Electrode Dielectric Elastomer Actuator

S. Holzer; B. Tiwari; S. M. A. Konstantinidi; Y. Civet; Y. Perriard 

Materials. 2025. Vol. 18, num. 8. DOI : 10.3390/ma18081693.

An efficient and compact supply for electroactive polymers

M. Almanza; C. Baron; G. Lan; Y. Wei; Y. R. C. Civet et al. 

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. 2025. DOI : 10.1109/TPEL.2025.3557213.

Thermomechanical constitutive modeling of the Kirigami-inspired shape memory alloy

M. Ghorbani; X. Liao; T. Martinez; Y. Perriard 

Smart Materials and Structures. 2025. Vol. 34, num. 4, p. 045026. DOI : 10.1088/1361-665X/adcdda.

DEyeA: Artificial Muscles for the Restoration of Eye Blinking Following Facial Paralysis

S. Konstantinidi; M. Koenigsdorff; P-J. Martin; A. Benouhiba; Y. Civet et al. 

Advanced Materials Technologies. 2025. DOI : 10.1002/admt.202401616.

Breaking the Cardiovascular Flow Barrier for Dielectric Elastomer Actuator-Based Pumping: Design and Characterization

A. Benouhiba; A. Walter; S. E. Jahren; F. Clavica; D. Obrist et al. 

Advanced Engineering Materials. 2025. Vol. 27, num. 2, p. 2401306. DOI : 10.1002/adem.202401306.

Investigation into vibration filtering for reducing friction loss of ultrasonic motors through a numerical approach

X. Liao; Y. Perriard 

SMART MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES. 2025. num. 1. DOI : 10.1088/1361-665X/ad9cd9.

Conference Papers

Contractile dielectric elastomer actuators with embedded active and passive structured fibers

S. Konstantinidi; M. Koenigsdorff; S. Holzer; Y. Civet; G. Gerlach et al. 

2025. SPIE Smart Structures + Nondestructive Evaluation 2025, Vancouver, CA, 2025-03-17 – 2025-03-20. DOI : 10.1117/12.3051367.

Force measurements of planar dielectric elastomer actuators

S. Holzer; S. Konstantinidi; Y. Civet; Y. Perriard 

2025. SPIE Smart Structures + Nondestructive Evaluation 2025, Vancouver, CA, 2025-03-17 – 2025-03-20. DOI : 10.1117/12.3050991.

DEMO: Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) for the restoration of facial movements

S. Konstantinidi; S. Holzer; M. M. C. Favier; A. Osorio Salazar; Y. Civet et al. 

2025. SPIE Smart Structures + Nondestructive Evaluation 2025, Vancouver, CA, 2025-03-17 – 2025-03-20. DOI : 10.1117/12.3057338.

Topology Optimization of Motor Windings for Coreless Electrical Machines

A. Thabuis; X. Ren; Y. Perriard 

2025. 2024 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Phoenix, AZ, USA, 2024-10-20 – 2024-10-24. DOI : 10.1109/ECCE55643.2024.10860836.

Reviews

The elastic frontier: dielectric elastomer actuators in healthcare technology

A. Benouhiba; S. Holzer; S. Konstantinidi; Y. Civet; Y. Perriard 

SMART MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES. 2025. Vol. 34, num. 3. DOI : 10.1088/1361-665X/adae6a.

Theses

Reinforced Dielectric Elastomer Actuators: Anisotropic designs for the restoration of facial movements

S. M. A. Konstantinidi / Y. Perriard; T. G. Martinez (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2025.