activity
20202025
most citedSilicon Flexes Muscles: Giant Electrochemical Actuation in a Nanoporous Silicon-Polypyrrole Hybrid Material

36 citations · 47 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

4 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Defect migration in supercrystalline nanocomposites

Dmitry Lapkin, Cong Yan, Emre Gürsoy +18

Supercrystalline nanocomposites (SCNCs) are nanostructured hybrid materials with unique emergent functional properties. Given their periodically arranged building blocks, they also…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 4 cited

Wafer-Scale Fabrication of Hierarchically Porous Silicon and Silica Glass by Active Nanoparticle-Assisted Chemical Etching and Pseudomorphic Thermal Oxidation

Stella Gries, Manuel Brinker, Berit Zeller-Plumhoff +4

Many biological materials exhibit a multiscale porosity with small, mostly nanoscale pores as well as large, macroscopic capillaries to simultaneously achieve optimized mass transp…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 7 cited

How nanoporous silicon-polypyrrole hybrids flex their muscles in aqueous electrolytes: In operando high-resolution x-ray diffraction and electron tomography-based micromechanical computer simulations

Manuel Brinker, Marc Thelen, Manfred May +7

Macroscopic strain experiments revealed that Si crystals traversed by parallel, channel-like nanopores functionalized with the muscle polymer polypyrrole exhibit large and reversib…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 36 cited

Silicon Flexes Muscles: Giant Electrochemical Actuation in a Nanoporous Silicon-Polypyrrole Hybrid Material

Manuel Brinker, Guido Dittrich, Claudia Richert +5

The absence of piezoelectricity in silicon makes direct electro-mechanical applications of this mainstream semiconductor impossible. Integrated electrical control of the silicon me…