Nicola Bartolomei
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5
Total Citations
468
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About
Nicola Bartolomei is a materials scientist and engineer whose research sits at the dynamic intersection of soft robotics, wearable electronics, and advanced fiber fabrication. His work centers on the development of stretchable, multimaterial fibers and devices capable of sustaining large elastic deformations — a capability critical for next-generation healthcare technologies, soft robotics, and wearable systems. Bartolomei has made significant contributions to the field of thermal drawing, a scalable fabrication technique he has helped adapt for producing highly elastic electronic and photonic fibers integrating complex multimaterial architectures. His 2018 paper on superelastic multimaterial fibers has accumulated 184 citations, while his 2020 work on liquid metal transmission lines as distributed deformation probes has garnered over 205 citations — reflecting substantial community recognition. His 2022 study on integrated multimaterial fibers for soft robotics further extended these capabilities toward miniaturized biomedical devices for minimally invasive procedures. Across his body of work, Bartolomei has consistently pushed the boundaries of what soft, stretchable materials can achieve in functional devices, bridging fundamental fabrication science with compelling real-world applications in medicine, robotics, and smart textiles.
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- 3Highly Integrated Multi‐Material Fibers for Soft Robotics73 citations · 2022
- 4Super-elastic multi-material optical fibers for healthcare applications4 citations · 2019
- 5Soft, stretchable optical fibers via thermal drawing2 citations · 2023