university of california, santa barbara – Page 2

Simulation of Viral Gene Delivery

Dinh A.T., Mitragotri S., Theofanous T., university of california, santa barbara, US

Here we develop an integrative computational framework to model biophysical processes involved in viral gene delivery. The model uses reaction-diffusion-advection equations that describe intracellular trafficking in combination with kinetic equations that describe transcription and translation [...]

A Nanoscale Composite Material for Enhanced Damage Tolerance in MEMS Applications

Paranjpye A., MacDonald N.C., Beltz G.E., university of california, santa barbara, US

A two-dimensional laminar composite material has been shown to exhibit enhanced damage tolerance due to zones of residual compressive stress. The damage tolerance appears as a threshold stress below which the structure does not fail [...]

Optimization of Mixing in an Active Micromixing Device

Mathew G., Mezic I., Serban R., Petzold L., university of california, santa barbara, US

Microscale mixers can be divided into two broad classifications - passive and active. Passive mixers rely on geometric properties of the channel shape whereas active mixers rely on time-dependent perturbation of the fluid flow to [...]

SOI Processing of a Ring Electrokinetic Chaotic Micromixer

Zhang Y.T., Chen H., Mezic I., Meinhart C.D., Petzold L., MacDonald N.C., university of california, santa barbara, US

Micromixing has been an active research area in the past decade due to the rapid expanding application of the lab-on-a-chip system in life science. Using the silicon bulk micromachining technology, a ring electroosmotic micromixer, which [...]