Papers:
Recent advances in capillary microflows for point-of-care and home-care devices
Biotechnology has been recently seeing fundamental evolutions: first, a clear shift towards biological applications; second a trend towards the design and fabrication of portable devices; third the choice of inexpensive materials such as plastic or [...]
The Automation of Protein Crystal Presentation for X Ray Diffraction Experiments using Standing Acoustic Waves in a Microfluidic Chip Environment
As the pressure continues to grow on Diamond and the world’s synchrotrons for higher throughput of diffraction experiments, new and novel techniques are required for presenting these micron dimension crystals to the X ray beam. [...]
The application of 3D printing to study microfluidic architecture for ‘on chip’ mixing systems for SRCD and UV spectroscopy
Circular dichroism (CD) is the differential absorption of left- and right-handed circularly polarized light. It is a form of spectroscopy used to determine the optical isomerism and secondary structure of molecules, and to study a [...]
A Simple Method for Fabrication of Microarrays and Microfluidic Device Using PDMS Stamp
We describe a simple micro-fabrication method by using polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) stamp on a glass substrate. While the microwells used previously facilitated the cell-to-cell formation by PDMS stamping method, not only should it be carefully controlled [...]
Negative Dielectrophoretic Force based High Efficiency and High Throughput Cell Sorting System Harnessing Paired Electrode Arrays and a Meso Size Channel
Dielectrophoresis activated cell sorters (DACS), which exploit intrinsic dielectric properties of target cells, are highlighted as an alternative cell sorting method. Nonetheless, the DACS performing in micro channel have limitation with throughput while they accomplished [...]
The Development of an Automated Nano Sampling Handling System for Nanometre Protein Crystallography Experiments
As the world’s synchrotrons and X-FELs endeavour to meet the need to analyse ever-smaller protein crystals, there grows a requirement for a new technique to present nano-dimensional samples to the beam for X-ray diffraction experiments.The [...]
Design, development and testing of apparatus to study gas diffusion in nanochannels
In this work an apparatus, designed to measure gas diffusion through nanochannels, is introduced. All calculations for the construction have been made for 2000 nanochannels with a diameter of 100 nm and a length of [...]
On the dynamic contact angle in spontaneous capillary flow
Capillary actuation of fluids is an interesting solution when the gravitational forces are small: this is the case in space , or in microfluidic systems where gravity is negligible. The onset of spontaneous capillary flow [...]
Microfluidics for multiplexing of core needle biopsies
Image guided biopsies for the procurement of diagnostic tissue has proven to be safe, cost effective and useful. However, the amount of tissue obtained is often diminutive and may be exhausted for conventional diagnostic purposes. [...]
Bottom-up Nanofabrication of Crystalline Structures of Magnetic Nanoparticles
A bottom-up approach to the nanofabrication of three-dimensional (3D) crystalline structures of magnetic core-shell nanoparticles is presented. The approach is based on self-assembly and involves the use of soft-magnetic template elements to guide the assembly [...]
Low-cost spin-coatable, Transferable, and High-k Ion Gel Dielectric for Flexible Eletrowetting
Electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD) is an emerging liquid-handling technology, enabling the wettability modulation of a liquid on a solid surface with an applied electric field. Recently, EWOD has been attractively used on flexible substrates to show potential [...]
Guidelines for choosing an appropriate turbulence model when simulating blood flows in cardiovascular devices
A systematic and detailed comparative study of computational results with validating experimental data has helped define the turbulence models that are most appropriate for predicting the velocity fields and shear forces in blood flows. The [...]
Plasmonic Nanocages as Photothermal Transducers for Laser Induced Heating and Bubble Generation
A series of new computational models is introduced to demonstrate several photonic and thermo-fluidic details of the photothermal process associated with nanosecond-pulsed, laser-heated gold nanocages. Such models can be used to simulate energy conversion within [...]
Journal: TechConnect Briefs
Volume: 3, Biotech, Biomaterials and Biomedical: TechConnect Briefs 2015
Published: June 14, 2015
Industry sector: Sensors, MEMS, Electronics
Topic: Micro & Bio Fluidics, Lab-on-Chip
ISBN: 978-1-4987-4729-5