Publications

2025

PEGDA-based HistoBrick for increasing throughput of cryosectioning and immunohistochemistry in organoid and small tissue studies

E. Vuille-Dit-Bille; L. Utz; F. E. MĂŒllner; V. J. Arteaga-Moreta; Y. Hou et al. 

Scientific Reports. 2025. Vol. 15, num. 1, p. 412. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-024-83164-2.

2024

Thermally Assisted Microfluidics to Produce Chemically Equivalent Microgels with Tunable Network Morphologies

D. Rommel; B. Haessel; P. Pietryszek; M. Mork; O. Jung et al. 

ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION. 2024. Vol. 64, num. 1. DOI : 10.1002/anie.202411772.

Shortwave Infrared Imaging of a Quantum Dot-Based Magnetic Guidewire Toward Non-Fluoroscopic Peripheral Vascular Interventions

J. Hwang; B. Kim; C. Jin; G. Lee; H. Jeong et al. 

SMALL. 2024. Vol. 21, num. 3. DOI : 10.1002/smll.202404251.

Laser Doppler Vibrometer measurements of the 3D pressure field for the estimation of the radiation force produced by an acoustic standing-wave levitator

E. Tenenbaum; E. Baruch; A. Dolev; I. Bucher 

Sensors And Actuators A-Physical. 2024. Vol. 374, p. 115505. DOI : 10.1016/j.sna.2024.115505.

Modeling the mechanosensitive collective migration of cells on the surface and the interior of morphing soft tissues

J. Kim; S. Sakar; N. Bouklas 

Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology. 2024. DOI : 10.1007/s10237-024-01870-2.

Precise tactile stimulation of worker ants by a robotic manipulator reveals that individual responses are density‐ and context‐dependent

M. RĂŒegg; A. Motes‐Rodrigo; A. Tuleu; N. Stroeymeyt; T. O. Richardson et al. 

Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 2024. Vol. 15, p. 117 – 129. DOI : 10.1111/2041-210X.14244.

A Flat Tendon-Driven Continuum Microrobot for Brain Interventions

L. Noseda; A. Liu; L. Pancaldi; M. S. Sakar 

2024. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Yokohama, Japan, 2024-05-13 – 2024-05-17. p. 13466 – 13471. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10611399.

Head-to-Head Comparison of Learning Curves Between QFR and FFRangio Software Users

A. Salihu; J. Zulauff; M. A. Gadiri; A. Metzinger; J. Muller et al. 

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions. 2024. DOI : 10.1002/ccd.31384.

Targeted worker removal reveals a lack of flexibility in brood transport specialisation with no compensatory gain in efficiency

S. McGregor; F. E. Uslu; S. Sakar; L. Keller 

Scientific Reports. 2024. Vol. 14, p. 4850. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-024-55244-w.

3D printed large amplitude torsional microactuators powered by ultrasound

A. Dolev; J. Hwang; M. A. Gadiri; S. Sakar 

Extreme Mechanics Letters. 2024. Vol. 68, p. 102148. DOI : 10.1016/j.eml.2024.102148.

A Robotic Surgery Platform for Automated Tissue Micromanipulation in Zebrafish Embryos

E. Özelçi; E. Etesami; L. A. Rohde; A. C. Oates; S. Sakar 

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2024. Vol. 9, p. 327 – 334. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2023.3333690.

Small-scale robotic devices for medical interventions in the brain

L. Noseda; S. Sakar 

MRS Bulletin. 2024. Vol. 49. DOI : 10.1557/s43577-023-00644-y.

PARATURBOCAD: AUTOMATED PARAMETRIC GEOMETRY CONSTRUCTION FOR GAS-BEARING SUPPORTED TURBOCOMPRESSOR DESIGN WITH PYTHON

S. Massoudi; J. Bejjani; T. Horvath; D. ÜstĂŒn; J. Schiffmann 

2024. ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Washington, United States, 2024-08-25 – 2024-08-28. DOI : 10.1115/DETC2024-143696.

2023

Towards AI-assisted cardiology: a reflection on the performance and limitations of using large language models in clinical decision-making

A. Salihu; M. A. Gadiri; I. Skalidis; D. Meier; D. Auberson et al. 

Eurointervention. 2023. Vol. 19, num. 10, p. E798 – E801. DOI : 10.4244/EIJ-D-23-00461.

3D Printed Acoustically Programmable Soft Microactuators

M. Kaynak; A. Dolev; S. Sakar 

Soft Robotics. 2023. Vol. 10, num. 2, p. 246 – 257. DOI : 10.1089/soro.2021.0193.

Development of a Robotic Microsurgeon for Embryonic Research

E. Özelçi / M. S. Sakar; A. C. Oates (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. 

Colloidal self-assembly of soft neural interfaces from injectable photovoltaic microdevices

H. Jia; Z. Huang; M. Kaynak; S. Sakar 

RSC Advances. 2023. Vol. 13, num. 29, p. 19888 – 19897. DOI : 10.1039/D3RA03591C.

A graduate laboratory experiment to study the dynamics of an acoustically levitated particle

A. Dolev; L. Noseda; B. Yalcin; S. Sakar 

European Journal of Physics. 2023. Vol. 44, num. 6, p. 065801. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6404/acf0a4.

An Autonomous Robotic Platform to Manipulate Collective Behavior in Ants

M. RĂŒegg / M. S. Sakar; L. Keller (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. 

A model for mechanosensitive cell migration in dynamically morphing soft tissues

J. Kim; E. Mailand; S. Sakar; N. Bouklas 

Extreme Mechanics Letters. 2023. Vol. 58, p. 101926. DOI : 10.1016/j.eml.2022.101926.

2022

Deconstructing body axis morphogenesis in zebrafish embryos using robot-assisted tissue micromanipulation

E. Özelçi; E. Mailand; M. RĂŒegg; A. C. Oates; S. Sakar 

Nature Communications. 2022. Vol. 13, p. 7934. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-022-35632-4.

Microengineered devices enable long-term imaging of the ventral nerve cord in behaving adult Drosophila

L. Hermans; M. Kaynak; J. Braun; V. L. Rios; C-L. Chen et al. 

Nature Communications. 2022. Vol. 13, num. 1, p. 5006. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-022-32571-y.

Actuated 3D microgels for single cell mechanobiology (vol 22, pg 1962, 2022)

B. Ozkale; J. Lou; E. Ozelci; A. Elosegui-Artola; C. M. Tringides et al. 

Lab On A Chip. 2022. Vol. 22, num. 18, p. 3565 – 3566. DOI : 10.1039/d2lc90078e.

Actuated 3D microgels for single cell mechanobiology

B. Ozkale; J. Lou; E. Ozelci; A. Elosegui-Artola; C. M. Tringides et al. 

Lab On A Chip. 2022. Vol. 22, num. 10, p. 1962 – 1970. DOI : 10.1039/d2lc00203e.

Balancing high-speed rotors at low speed using optimized parametric excitation and tuned nonlinear feedback

A. Dolev; S. Tresser; I. Bucher 

International Journal Of Non-Linear Mechanics. 2022. Vol. 139, p. 103873. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2021.103873.