Shweta Agarwala

Shweta Agarwala
Aarhus University | AU · Department of Engineering

Ph.D

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Introduction
Leading Projects on Printed electronics and Bioelectronics for applications areas of wearables, biomedical and healthcare and flexible electronics.
Additional affiliations
April 2019 - present
Aarhus University
Position
  • Professor (Assistant)
June 2015 - March 2019
Nanyang Technological University
Position
  • PostDoc Position
July 2014 - July 2014
Sungkyunkwan University
Position
  • Visiting Scientist
Education
August 2007 - July 2011
National University of Singapore
Field of study
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering
August 2006 - May 2007
Nanyang Technological University
Field of study
  • Electrical and Electronics Engineering
August 2000 - May 2004
M.J.P. Rohilkhand University
Field of study
  • Electronics Engineering

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Publications (86)
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Advancements in biomedical technologies increasingly demand biocompatible and biodegradable materials capable of integrating with the body for real-time monitoring of physiological processes. Aortic annuloplasty, a procedure to stabilize the aortic root and restore valve function in cases of regurgitation and root dilation, highlights the need for...
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In recent years, interest in biodegradable polymers has surged due to their diverse properties, including some remarkable characteristics such as piezoelectricity, which holds promise for next-generation sustainable electronics. This growing focus underscores the importance of understanding piezoelectric materials like Poly-L-Lactic Acid (PLLA), wh...
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Our research delves into both the fabrication and analysis of biodegradable Poly-L-Lactic Acid (PLLA) films. Specifically, we investigate how stretching impacts the piezoelectric properties of PLLA films. By employing advanced techniques such as Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy (THz-TDS), we aim to unveil previously undiscovered aspects of PLLA's...
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The potential of sensing devices can be significantly enhanced by utilizing biodegradable polymers with adjustable mechanical, adhesion, and healing properties. In this study, adhesive films made from dopamine (DA) and citric acid (CA) modified polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) are presented. These films are exclusively derived from bio-based materials, foll...
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Direct-writing techniques of printed electronics (PEs) have great potential within flexible electronics and allow to fabricate circuits on double curved surfaces. In sensor applications, it is often necessary to protect the electrical connections between the sensor and the electrical instrumentation against electromagnetic interference (EMI). This...
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Muscle atrophy is a well-known consequence of immobilization and critical illness, leading to prolonged rehabilitation and increased mortality. In this study, we develop a solution to preserve muscle mass using customized biocompatible neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) device. Commercially available NMES solutions with gel-based electrode...
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The electrical properties of pristine fluoropolymers are inferior due to their low polar crystalline phase content and rigid dipoles that tend to retain their fixed moment and orientation. Several strategies, such as electrospinning, electrohydrodynamic pulling, and template‐assisted growing, have been proven to enhance the electrical properties of...
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With the increasing demand for smart textile and sensor applications, the interest in printed electronics is rising. In this study, we explore the applicability of electrospun membranes, characterized by high porosity and hydrophobicity, as potential substrates for printed electronics. The two most common inks, silver and carbon, were used in inkje...
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Printed electronics has opened up new insights towards fabrication of electronic components and devices. This manufacturing technique has been successfully employed as a complementary fabrication approach to conventional nanolithography and microfabrication processes to create flexible and stretchable electronics. Fluoropolymers are crucial compone...
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The electrical properties of pristine fluoropolymers are inferior due to their low polar crystalline phase content and rigid dipoles that tend to retain their fixed moment and orientation. Several strategies such as electrospinning, electrohydrodynamic pulling, and template-assisted growing have been proven to enhance the electrical properties of f...
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There is a clinical need for the development of sensors to measure buildup of pressure on organs, as it is indicative of many underlying ailments. However, electronic devices need to be flexible, and have low Young’s modulus to be compatible with human tissues. Although many advances have been made in bioresorbable devices making these devices with...
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The current global chip shortage and energy crisis has prompted research community to investigate alternative electronic and energy materials with improved performance. Here, we propose a versatile and easy to fabricate ceramic-free nanocomposite film, based on fluoropolymers and amine-functionalized graphene oxide (AGO) nanosheets with great appli...
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Biodegradable materials are designed to degrade in a desired time either through the action of microorganisms or under certain physical conditions. The driving force behind the rise of biodegradable materials is the growing problem of electronic waste (e-waste), low recyclability, and toxicity of electronic materials. Transient response of biodegra...
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Wound healing is a complex and dynamic regeneration process, wherein the physical and chemical parameters are continuously changing. Its management and monitoring can provide immense benefits, especially for bedridden patients. This work reports a low-cost, flexible, and fully printed on-skin patch sensor to measure the change in pH and fluid conte...
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Electrical stimulation against loss of muscle mass and physical function in a patient admitted with COVID-19 Anders Frydenlund, Axel I. Poggi, Sofie K. Hansen, Morten Brage-Andersen, Youssif Merhi, Shweta Agarwala, Peter H. Mikkelsen, Jens V. Nygaard, Ida E. Steffensen & Charlotte Suetta Ugeskr Læger 2021;183:V03210275 This is a case report of...
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This is a case report of a hospitalised 62-year-old male patient with COVID-19, who received unilateral neuromuscular electrical stimulation treatment with a customised anti-embolic compression stocking and maintained muscle mass as well as maximum voluntary quadriceps contraction and balance during six days of illness-induced immobilisation. This...
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Printed electronics (PE) is an emerging technology that uses functional inks to print electrical components and circuits on variety of substrates. This technology has opened up new possibilities to fabricate flexible, bendable, and form‐fitting devices at low‐cost and fast speed. There are different printing technologies in use, among which droplet...
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Polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) and its copolymers are promising electroactive polymers showing outstanding ferroelectric, piezoelectric, and pyroelectric properties in comparison with other organic materials. They have shown promise for applications in flexible sensors, energy-harvesting transducers, electronic skins, and flexible memories due to...
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Electrically conducting hydrogels are gaining increasing attention due to their potential application in smart patches, biosensors, functional tissue engineering scaffolds, wound management, and implants. The current review focuses on these novel materials, their synthesis routes, and their composites. Special attention is paid to fabrication route...
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Since the discovery of electricity and the creation of the first transistors two centuries ago, the field of electronics has evolved rapidly to become omnipresent in our lives. Today, electronic devices are challenged by new demands in function and performance: they are expected to be lightweight, highly efficient, flexible, smart, and implantable,...
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Alignment of carbon nanotubes (CNT) is of great importance for the fabrication of high-speed electronic devices such as a transistor as the electron mobilities can be greatly enhanced with aligned CNT architectures. Here, we report, for the first time, a methodology to obtain preferentially aligned CNT traces on flexible polyimide substrate utilizi...
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Aerosol jet printing is a process under the umbrella of additive manufacturing for conformably putting electronics on unconventional substrates. The project highlights potential of aerosol jet to print conformal and flexible antenna device. Polycaprolactone (PLC) polymer is chosen for its biodegradable nature. A flexible scaffold is fabricated usin...
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Singapore hosts 10th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies - Volume 44 Issue 10 - B.V.R. Chowdari, Shweta Agarwala
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Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are 1-dimensional (1D) and flexible nanomaterials with high electric conductivity and a high aspect ratio. These features make CNTs highly suitable materials for the fabrication of flexible electronics. CNTs can also be made into dispersions which can be used as the feedstock material for droplet-based 3D printing technologi...
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Fiber reinforced sandwich structures are widely used as structural elements due to their lightweight and high load-bearing capacity. In this paper, effort is taken to fabricate fiber facesheet (0°/90° orientation) and corrugated cores (trapezoidal vertical pillared, core-1 and sinusoidal vertical pillared, core-2) of the sandwich structure using fu...
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This paper presents a feasibility study of using 3D printing technique to fabricate microfluidic sensor for soft robotics. Microfluidic sensor are widely used in lab-on-chip devices for strain and pressure direction. This study explores 3D printing techniques for materials to fabricate microfluidic sensors. We report a simple approach like inkjet-p...
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Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are 1D nanostructured materials with unique mechanical, optical, and electrical properties which can be potentially exploited for fabricating wide variety of devices. In addition, the biocompatibility of CNTs makes it attractive for wearable and implantable technology applications. Well‐aligned CNT structures show enhanced p...
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Flexible and stretchable strain sensors are in great demand for many applications like wearables and home health. This work reports a strain sensor fabricated using aerosol jet printing technology on a commercially available bandage to be used as a low-cost wearable. Laser light is explored to sinter the silver nanoparticle ink on low-temperature b...
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Three-dimensional (3D) printing has been gaining widespread attention for electronic applications. Aerosol jet printing has emerged as a powerful technique to print new-age sensors and devices on various substrates. In this work, we use simulation studies to optimize the dimensions and design of aerosol jet printed strain sensor for good performanc...
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Additive manufacturing (AM) has brought about a revolution in the way we can manufacture complex products with customized features. AM has paved its way in the application areas ranging from aerospace, automotive, consumer to biomedical. AM of composites has attracted special attention due to its promise in improving, modifying, and diversifying th...
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The monitoring of pH is valuable for many environmental, industrial, and biological applications. Here, we develop a flexible pH sensor using CNT material using aerosol jet technology. The chemiresistive pH sensor is fabricated with a CNT-based miniaturized serpentine sensing element printed on top of the silver electrodes. Aerosol jet printing par...
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Stretchable electronics is gaining wide spread attention due to its application in many applications such as wearable devices, soft robotics, biomedical and consumer products. Aerosol jet printing, which is capable of printing very fine features, can be used to fabricate high performance flexible electronic devices. In this paper, we explore aeroso...
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Silver nanoparticle based microelectrodes embedded between layers of hydrogel material were successfully fabricated. 3D bioprinting is employed to print the entire bioelectronics platform comprising of conducting silver ink and Gelatin methacryloyl (GelMA) hydrogel. The additive manufacturing technique of bioprinting gives design freedom for the ci...
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Continuous fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites have been used for many applications to create strong yet lightweight products due to their high strength-to-weight and stiffness-to-weight ratios. Aerospace [1], automotive [2], and sport [3]industries are three of the few industries that have been using FRP composites. The increasing need for p...
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Additive manufacturing (AM) technique can help reduce time, cost, and complexity of the manufactured parts apart from adding functionality. This work explores AM techniques, namely fused deposition modeling (FDM) and PolyJet printing to fabricate a free-form structure with embedded electrical components. Both additive manufacturing technologies are...
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Minute pH changes impact all living organisms, and thus facile pH monitoring in environment and on the cellular level is important. A low cost and flexible carbon nanotube based pH sensor is fabricated in this work using Aerosol jet printing technique. The chemiresistive pH sensor is fabricated with a CNT-based miniaturized serpentine sensing eleme...
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Bioelectronics platforms are gaining widespread attention as they provide a template to study the interactions between biological species and electronics. Decoding the effect of the electrical signals on the cells and tissues holds the promise for treating the malignant tissue growth, regenerating organs and engineering new-age medicaldevices.Thiswo...
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This paper describes the design, fabrication and characterization of a microchannel-based strain sensor using flexible material. The work explores the use of additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, to fabricate the sensor in easy and cost-effective way. It is shown that 3D printing can print complex designs with ease and fabricate object...
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Retinal degeneration causes permanent visual loss and affects millions world-wide. Cell transplantation could have the potential in retinal regeneration. However, several problems hindered the successful repair of the retina including cell delivery, integration and survival. Recent studies showed that the use of scaffolds can address these obstacle...
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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are gaining popularity due to their application in military, private and public sector, especially being attractive for fields where human operator is not required. Light-weight UAVs are more desirable as they have better performance in terms of shorter take-off range and longer flight endurance. However, light weight...
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Aerosol jet is an additive manufacturing technique that writes electronic inks directly onto the surface. The process has great potential for printed electronics as it is non-contact method that works well with variety of materials- metals, insulators, semiconductors, epoxy and encapsulation materials for conformal writing. This paper explores the...
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Tissue engineering approaches have been adopted to address challenges in osteochondral tissue regeneration. Single phase scaffolds, which consist of only one single material throughout the whole structure, have been used extensively in these tissue engineering approaches. However, a single phase scaffold is insufficient in providing all the propert...
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Tissue engineering approaches have been adopted to address challenges in osteochondral tissue regeneration. Single phase scaffolds, which consist of only one single material throughout the whole structure, have been used extensively in these tissue engineering approaches. However, a single phase scaffold is insufficient in providing all the propert...
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Tissue engineering approaches have been adopted to address challenges in osteochondral tissue regeneration. Single phase scaffolds, which consist of only one single material throughout the whole structure, have been used extensively in these tissue engineering approaches. However, a single phase scaffold is insufficient in providing all the propert...
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Aerosol jet is an additive manufacturing technique that writes electronic inks directly onto the surface. The process has great potential for printed electronics as it is non-contact method that works well with variety of materials-metals, insulators, semiconductors, epoxy and encapsulation materials for conformal writing. This paper explores the e...
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Bioprinting, an additive manufacturing technique, has become the cynosure of research and industry world alike. This emerging technology holds the promise of constructing artificial tissues and organs in future. This paper overviews the current state in bioprinting technology, distinguishes between different types of techniques and describes the bi...
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This research focuses on exploring low cost and rapid production solutions for fabricating patch antennas for wireless communication applications. Fast and simple additive manufacturing technique is used to print two patch antennas using silver nanoparticle ink on FR4 substrate. Finite element simulation software, HFSS is used to analyze and predic...
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This research focuses on exploring low-cost and rapid production solutions for fabricating emitters for patch antennas for wireless communication applications. Additive manufacturing technique is employed to fabricate two patch antennas using silver nanoparticle ink on FR4 substrate. Finite-element simulation software, HFSS is used to analyse and p...
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Free-form electronics is driving the bio-medical industry with specifications such as user customization, cost-effectiveness and short response time. Unification of bio- and electronic materials will open doors for wider applications. Integration of electronic materials for bio-sensing is one such field and had garnered much interest. The paper bri...
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Organic inorganic lead halide based perovskites solar cells are by far the highest efficiency solution-processed solar cells, threatening to challenge thin film and polycrystalline silicon ones. Despite the intense research in this area, concerns surrounding the long term stability as well as the toxicity of lead in the archetypal perovskite, CH3NH...
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TiO2 hierarchical nanostructures with secondary growth have been successfully synthesized on electrospun nanofibers via surfactant-free hydrothermal route. The effect of hydrothermal reaction time on the secondary nanostructures has been studied. The synthesized nanostructures comprise electrospun nanofibers which are polycrystalline with anatase p...
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High yield of three-dimensional (3D) tin oxide (SnO2) sea-urchin nanostructures have been successfully achieved via an economical hydrothermal process without the use of any physical template. The morphology of the synthesized nanostructures can be considered as one-dimensional (1D) nanorods assembled on a 3D core with a relatively high surface are...
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By manipulating the nanostructures, it is possible to impart new functionalities to material systems. In this chapter we try to combine the advantages of 1D and 3D nanostructures, to achieve superior electron transport along with high surface area. Intrigued by the unique properties of Fe2O3 at nanoscale and its abundance in nature, we demonstrate...
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In the present work, electrochemical anodization has been used to prepare uniform TiO{sub 2} nanotube array photoelectrode. The average internal diameter, tube length and wall thickness of the optimized morphology is {approx}180 nm, 14 {mu}m and 10 nm, respectively. It was found that the tube diameter increases with the anodization voltage. Diffrac...
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A lot of research on nanomaterials has been carried out in recent years. However, there is still a lack of nanostructures that have a combination of superior properties; both efficient electron transport and high surface area. Here, the authors have tried to develop hybrid α-Fe(2)O(3) flower-like morphology which exhibits both superior electron tra...
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Sodium β-alumina (SBA)-based gate dielectric films have been developed for all solution-processed, transparent and low voltage field-effect transistors (FETs). Its high dielectric constant has been ascribed to sodium (Na+) ions in the crystal structure; however, there are no published experimental results concerning the contribution of Na+ ions to...
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Dye sensitized solar cells (DSSC) are attractive because they hold promise for devices that are easy to fabricate and inexpensive. In the present work, highly crystalline mesoporous TiO2 has been synthesized by evaporation induced self assembly (EISA) method using triblock copolymer Pluronic P123 as the organic template. The synthesized TiO2 is ana...
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In this work, enhancement of ionic conductivity and long-term stability through the addition of diphenylamine (DPA) in poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) is demonstrated. Potassium iodide (KI) is adopted as the crystal growth inhibitor, and DPA is used as a charge transport enhancer in the electrolyte. The modified electrolyte is used with titanium dioxide...
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A quasi-solid state electrolyte employing a poly(ethylene oxide)/LiI system without a filler is studied. It is optimized for various potassium iodide (KI) concentrations. The electrolyte containing 14.5 wt % of KI exhibits the highest conductivity (3.0 x 10-3 Scm-1). An efficiency of 4.5 % is achieved using this composition of the electrolyte. It i...
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GaAs is one of the most important III-V group compound semiconductors for optical, high field and high frequency homo and hetero structure devices. It is widely used because of its high electron mobility feature and band gap compared to Si. The electron drift mobility in Γ conduction band of GaAs has been calculated before as a function of temperat...
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Mesophase ordering and structuring are carried out to attain optimized pore morphology, high crystallinity, stable porous framework, and crack-free mesoporous titanium dioxide (TiO(2)) films. The pore structure (quasi-hexagonal and lamellar) can be controlled via the concentration of copolymer, resulting in two different types of micellar packing....
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Synthesis of well-organized and highly crystalline mesoporous titania (TiO2) film is demonstrated using triblock copolymer (Pluronic P123) as a structure directing template, through the evaporation induced selfassembly (EISA) process. The issue of thermal and structural stability of a mesoporous TiO2 film was addressed via optimization of annealing...