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Mahmoud Tavakoli

Mahmoud Tavakoli

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
37
Citations
4210
World Ranking
5215
National Ranking
24

Overview

Mahmoud Tavakoli is affiliated with the University of Coimbra in Portugal and specializes in the field of Engineering, with a particular focus on Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, and Cognitive Neuroscience. Their research prominently covers advanced materials and sensor technologies, addressing various applications within these subfields.

The scientist's recent publications highlight investigations into flexible and stretchable electronics, wearable devices, and advanced materials for sensing and energy harvesting. Notable papers include:

  • 3R Electronics: Scalable Fabrication of Resilient, Repairable, and Recyclable Soft-Matter Electronics, 2022, Advanced Materials
  • Bi-Phasic Ag-In-Ga-Embedded Elastomer Inks for Digitally Printed, Ultra-Stretchable, Multi-layer Electronics, 2021, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Reversible polymer-gel transition for ultra-stretchable chip-integrated circuits through self-soldering and self-coating and self-healing, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Wearable and Comfortable e-Textile Headband for Long-Term Acquisition of Forehead EEG Signals, 2020, IEEE Sensors Journal
  • Fully Untethered Battery-free Biomonitoring Electronic Tattoo with Wireless Energy Harvesting, 2020, Scientific Reports

Their frequent coauthors include Pedro Alhais Lopes, Anı́bal T. de Almeida, Carmel Majidi, André F. Silva, and Manuel Reis Carneiro, showing a collaborative research network to advance the topics of stretchable electronics and wearable sensing.

Research venues where Mahmoud Tavakoli has published multiple papers reflect their research focus and include Advanced Materials Technologies, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Advanced Functional Materials, IEEE Sensors Journal, and Advanced Materials Interfaces.

Among the main topics addressed in their work are:

  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Dielectric materials and actuators
  • Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication

Best Publications

  • EGaIn-Assisted Room-Temperature Sintering of Silver Nanoparticles for Stretchable, Inkjet-Printed, Thin-Film Electronics

    Mahmoud Tavakoli;Mohammad H Malakooti;Hugo Paisana;Yunsik Ohm

  • OmniClimbers: Omni-directional magnetic wheeled climbing robots for inspection of ferromagnetic structures

    Mahmoud Tavakoli;Carlos Viegas;Lino Marques;J. Norberto Pires

  • Robust hand gesture recognition with a double channel surface EMG wearable armband and SVM classifier

    Mahmoud Tavakoli;Carlo Benussi;Pedro Alhais Lopes;Luis Bica Osorio

  • Hydroprinted Electronics: Ultrathin Stretchable Ag-In-Ga E-Skin for Bioelectronics and Human-Machine Interaction.

    Pedro Alhais Lopes;Hugo Paisana;Anibal T De Almeida;Carmel Majidi

  • Single channel surface EMG control of advanced prosthetic hands

    Mahmoud Tavakoli;Carlo Benussi;Joao Luis Lourenco

  • Bi-Phasic Ag-In-Ga-Embedded Elastomer Inks for Digitally Printed, Ultra-Stretchable, Multi-layer Electronics.

    Pedro Alhais Lopes;Daniel Félix Fernandes;André F Silva;Daniel Green Marques

  • Digitally printed stretchable electronics: a review

    Daniel Félix Fernandes;Carmel Majidi;Mahmoud Tavakoli

  • 3DCLIMBER: A climbing robot for inspection of 3D human made structures

    M. Tavakoli;A. Marjovi;L. Marques;A.T. de Almeida

  • Reversible polymer-gel transition for ultra-stretchable chip-integrated circuits through self-soldering and self-coating and self-healing.

    Pedro Alhais Lopes;Bruno C. Santos;Aníbal T. de Almeida;Mahmoud Tavakoli

  • Fabrication and characterization of bending and pressure sensors for a soft prosthetic hand

    Rui Pedro Rocha;Pedro Alhais Lopes;Anibal T de Almeida;Mahmoud Tavakoli

  • A hybrid pole climbing and manipulating robot with minimum DOFs for construction and service applications

    Mahmoud Tavakoli;Mohammad Reza Zakerzadeh;G. R. Vossoughi;S. Bagheri

  • Soft Bioelectronic Stickers: Selection and Evaluation of Skin‐Interfacing Electrodes

    Pedro Alhais Lopes;Davide Vaz Gomes;Daniel Green Marques;Pedro Faia

  • Adaptive under-actuated anthropomorphic hand: ISR-SoftHand

    Mahmoud Tavakoli;Anibal T. de Almeida

  • 3DCLIMBER: Climbing and manipulation over 3D structures

    Mahmoud Tavakoli;Lino Marques;Anı´bal T. de Almeida

  • Reliable interfaces for EGaIn multi-layer stretchable circuits and microelectronics

    Daniel Green Marques;Pedro Alhais Lopes;Anibal T de Almeida;Carmel Majidi

  • 3R Electronics: Scalable Fabrication of Resilient, Repairable, and Recyclable Soft‐Matter Electronics

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  • Wearable and Comfortable e-Textile Headband for Long-Term Acquisition of Forehead EEG Signals

    Manuel Reis Carneiro;Anibal T. de Almeida;Mahmoud Tavakoli

  • Fully Untethered Battery-free Biomonitoring Electronic Tattoo with Wireless Energy Harvesting

    José Alberto;Cristina Leal;Cláudio Fernandes;Pedro A. Lopes

  • The UC Softhand: Light Weight Adaptive Bionic Hand with a Compact Twisted String Actuation System

    Mahmoud Tavakoli;Rafael Batista;Lucio Sgrigna

  • Autonomous Selection of Closing Posture of a Robotic Hand Through Embodied Soft Matter Capacitive Sensors

    Mahmoud Tavakoli;Pedro Lopes;Joao Lourenco;Rui Pedro Rocha

  • The hybrid OmniClimber robot: Wheel based climbing, arm based plane transition, and switchable magnet adhesion

    Mahmoud Tavakoli;João Lourenço;Carlos Viegas;Pedro Neto

Frequent Co-Authors

Anibal T. de Almeida
Anibal T. de Almeida University of Coimbra
Carmel Majidi
Carmel Majidi Carnegie Mellon University
Jorge F. J. Coelho
Jorge F. J. Coelho University of Coimbra

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