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Soft Matter Group Team Wins the 2023 EuroEAP Challenge Competition

8 June 2023

Giacomo Sasso being awarded the EuroEAP challenge prize by Dr Gabriele Frediani, another Soft Matter Group PhD alumni, now working at the University of Florence.

Five former and current members of the soft matter group attending EuroEAP on the SS Great Britain in Bristol in advance of the conference dinner. (From left to right: Yutong Sun, Giacomo Sasso, Federico Carpi, James Busfield and Gabriele Frediani)

Congratulations to Giacomo Sasso, Yutong Sun and Renzo Ramirez Herrera whose team won the EuroEAP Society challenge (the overall top prize sponsored by Toyota) at the European Electro Active Polymer Conference held this year in Bristol in the UK.

Giacomo's team demonstrated a 3D soft touch pad that changes colour with pressure, and which provides a direct mechano-chromic sensing capability.

The project was supervised by Prof James Busfield and Prof Federico Carpi. James commented that “The competition entry video that the team put together was extremely professional and highlighted our new device that is a truly novel and visual way of sensing pressure with a wide range of applications in soft robotic systems. To win this prestigeous award is an amazing achievement for the team.”


Contact:	James Busfield
Email:	j.busfield@qmul.ac.uk
People:	James BUSFIELD Federico CARPI
Research Centre:	Intelligent Transport

Updated by: James Busfield