People
Kim Ulrich
Doctoral Researcher
Cluster of Excellence livMatS @ FIT – Freiburg Center for Interactive Materials and Bioinspired Technologies
Plant Biomechanics Group Freiburg, Botanic Garden Freiburg
Phone: +49 761 203 8460
Email: kim.ulrich@livmats.uni-freiburg.de
Project
Material transitions in moving systems in nature in technology
If a materials system consisting of several material layers with different mechanical properties is deformed, stresses arise at the material interfaces, which may cause delamination of the layers. Structural and mechanical analyses of motile biological systems will be used to elaborate principles for improving the longevity of multilayer technical structures and to investigate their applicability.
First supervisor
Publications
- Weather-responsive adaptive shading through biobased and bioinspired hygromorphic 4D-printing*
Cheng, T., Tahouni, Y., Sahin, E. S., Ulrich, K., Lajewski, S., Bonten, C., Wood, D., Rühe, J., Speck, T., & Menges, A. (2024). Weather-responsive adaptive shading through biobased and bioinspired hygromorphic 4D-printing. Nature Communications, 15(1), 10366. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-54808-8 - µCT imaging, cracking failure and blocking force measurements of cyclically actuated pine cone scales of Pinus jeffreyi*
K. Ulrich, L. Genter, S. Schäfer, T. Masselter & Speck, T. (2024). µCT imaging, cracking failure and blocking force measurements of cyclically actuated pine cone scales of Pinus jeffreyi. In Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 19(4): 046009. [Special Issue on Bioinspired and Bio-based Living Materials Systems]. doi: 10.1088/1748-3190/ad475b - 3D printed digital pneumatic logic for the control of soft robotic actuators*
Conrad, S., Teichmann, J., Knorr, N., Bellin, D., Speck, T. & Tauber, F. J. (2024): 3D printed digital pneumatic logic for the control of soft robotic actuators. Science Robotics, 9: eadh4060. doi: 10.1126/scirobotics.adh4060