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Overview

Martin Kaltenbrunner is affiliated with Johannes Kepler University of Linz in Austria and specializes primarily in the field of Engineering. Their research spans several subfields, including Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, and Materials Chemistry.

The scientist's research focuses on topics that include:

  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Soft Robotics and Applications
  • Dielectric materials and actuators
  • Micro and Nano Robotics

Martin Kaltenbrunner has contributed to numerous publications in notable scientific venues. Among the most frequent publication venues are:

  • Advanced Materials
  • Advanced Science
  • Science Advances
  • Advanced Intelligent Systems
  • Nature Electronics

Their recent published papers include:

  • Resilient yet entirely degradable gelatin-based biogels for soft robots and electronics, 2020, Nature Materials
  • An autonomous wearable biosensor powered by a perovskite solar cell, 2023, Nature Electronics
  • Becoming Sustainable, The New Frontier in Soft Robotics, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • Soft electromagnetic actuators, 2020, Science Advances
  • Ultrafast small-scale soft electromagnetic robots, 2022, Nature Communications

Collaborations form a significant part of this scientist's work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Guoyong Mao
  • Stepan Demchyshyn
  • Bekele Hailegnaw
  • Florian Hartmann
  • Roland Pruckner

Best Publications

  • An ultra-lightweight design for imperceptible plastic electronics

    Martin Kaltenbrunner;Tsuyoshi Sekitani;Tsuyoshi Sekitani;Jonathan Reeder;Jonathan Reeder;Tomoyuki Yokota

  • Ultrathin and lightweight organic solar cells with high flexibility

    Martin Kaltenbrunner;Matthew S. White;Eric D. Głowacki;Tsuyoshi Sekitani;Tsuyoshi Sekitani

  • Ultraflexible organic photonic skin

    Tomoyuki Yokota;Peter Zalar;Martin Kaltenbrunner;Hiroaki Jinno

  • Flexible high power-per-weight perovskite solar cells with chromium oxide–metal contacts for improved stability in air

    Martin Kaltenbrunner;Getachew Adam;Eric Daniel Głowacki;Michael Drack

  • Ultrathin, highly flexible and stretchable PLEDs

    Matthew S. White;Martin Kaltenbrunner;Martin Kaltenbrunner;Eric D. Głowacki;Kateryna Gutnichenko

  • Printable elastic conductors with a high conductivity for electronic textile applications

    Naoji Matsuhisa;Martin Kaltenbrunner;Martin Kaltenbrunner;Tomoyuki Yokota;Tomoyuki Yokota;Hiroaki Jinno

  • 25th Anniversary Article: A Soft Future: From Robots and Sensor Skin to Energy Harvesters

    Siegfried Bauer;Simona Bauer-Gogonea;Ingrid Graz;Martin Kaltenbrunner;Martin Kaltenbrunner

  • Resilient yet entirely degradable gelatin-based biogels for soft robots and electronics

    Melanie Baumgartner;Florian Hartmann;Michael Drack;David Preninger

  • Instant tough bonding of hydrogels for soft machines and electronics

    Daniela Wirthl;Robert Pichler;Michael Drack;Gerald Kettlguber

  • Ultraflexible, large-area, physiological temperature sensors for multipoint measurements

    Tomoyuki Yokota;Yusuke Inoue;Yuki Terakawa;Jonathan Reeder;Jonathan Reeder

  • An autonomous wearable biosensor powered by a perovskite solar cell

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  • A bimodal soft electronic skin for tactile and touchless interaction in real time.

    Jin Ge;Xu Wang;Michael Drack;Oleksii Volkov

  • Röntgen’s electrode-free elastomer actuators without electromechanical pull-in instability

    Christoph Keplinger;Martin Kaltenbrunner;Nikita Arnold;Siegfried Bauer

  • Wearable magnetic field sensors for flexible electronics.

    Michael Melzer;Jens Ingolf Mönch;Denys Makarov;Yevhen Zabila

  • Hydrogen‐Bonded Semiconducting Pigments for Air‐Stable Field‐Effect Transistors

    Eric Daniel Głowacki;Mihai Irimia-Vladu;Mihai Irimia-Vladu;Martin Kaltenbrunner;Martin Kaltenbrunner;Martin Kaltenbrunner;Jacek Gsiorowski

  • Ultraflexible organic amplifier with biocompatible gel electrodes

    Tsuyoshi Sekitani;Tomoyuki Yokota;Kazunori Kuribara;Martin Kaltenbrunner;Martin Kaltenbrunner

  • Becoming Sustainable, The New Frontier in Soft Robotics.

    Florian Hartmann;Melanie Baumgartner;Martin Kaltenbrunner

  • Flexible ferroelectret field-effect transistor for large-area sensor skins and microphones

    Ingrid Graz;Martin Kaltenbrunner;Christoph Keplinger;Reinhard Schwödiauer

  • Mechanically Adaptive Organic Transistors for Implantable Electronics

    Jonathan Reeder;Jonathan Reeder;Martin Kaltenbrunner;Martin Kaltenbrunner;Taylor Ware;David Arreaga-Salas

  • Imperceptible magnetoelectronics

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  • Arrays of ultracompliant electrochemical dry gel cells for stretchable electronics.

    Martin Kaltenbrunner;Gerald Kettlgruber;Christian Siket;Reinhard Schwödiauer

  • Flexible-foam-based capacitive sensor arrays for object detection at low cost

    Christian Metzger;Elgar Fleisch;Jan Meyer;Mario Dansachmüller

  • An imperceptible plastic electronic wrap.

    Michael Drack;Ingrid Graz;Tsuyoshi Sekitani;Tsuyoshi Sekitani;Takao Someya;Takao Someya

Frequent Co-Authors

Siegfried Bauer
Siegfried Bauer Johannes Kepler University of Linz
Takao Someya
Takao Someya University of Tokyo
Tsuyoshi Sekitani
Tsuyoshi Sekitani Osaka University
Tomoyuki Yokota
Tomoyuki Yokota University of Tokyo
Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci
Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci Johannes Kepler University of Linz
Christoph Keplinger
Christoph Keplinger Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Naoji Matsuhisa
Naoji Matsuhisa University of Tokyo
Bert Nickel
Bert Nickel Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Denys Makarov
Denys Makarov Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Achim Walter Hassel
Achim Walter Hassel Johannes Kepler University of Linz

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