Fabio Beco Albuquerque

Dr Fabio Beco Albuquerque has been the business development manager for EAP technology at Dätwyler since 2022, promoting the technology and how it can be integrated into customers' applications across various industries, including in automotive interiors. He holds a PhD (EPFL Switzerland 2022) in the field of long-term reliability of EAP under different environmental and operational conditions, and has an academic background in chemistry (BSc EPFL 2015), and polymer engineering (MSc DTU Denmark 2018).

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Presentation

Versatile, lightweight and silent electroactive polymer actuators for automotive interiors

Dätwyler is undertaking the industrialization phase of a novel transducer technology completely made out of polymers ('electroactive polymers' or EAPs), with a first industrial-scale pilot production line due to be operational by Q4 2024. Dätwyler EAPs are versatile actuators that can be manufactured in various geometries and sizes, customized to customers' specific needs. EAPs are intrinsically silent, self-sensing, compact and lightweight, with low energy consumption and high strokes at low response times. They constitute a robust, low-mechanical-complexity alternative to conventional actuation technologies and can be straightforwardly integrated and assembled with reduced costs.