Cao J. – TechConnect Briefs

Development and Testing of Thermosensitive Poly(NIPAm-AA)/Nano-SiO2 Composite Blocking Agent for Shale Gas Drilling Operations

Wang W., Qiu Z., Chen G., Zhong H., Huang W., Cao J., China University of Petroleum, CN

Nanotechnology has already contributed significantly to technological advances in energy industry and has the potential to revolutionize the drilling industry. Traditional blocking agents are difficult to form effective mud cake to prevent liquid penetration due [...]

Design and Evaluation of a Highly Stretchable and Conductive Thin Film for Tactile Sensors

Sun Y., Zhou D., Bai J., Wang H., Cao J., Univeristy of Minnisota Duluth, US

Keeping good conductivity at high stretching strain is one of the main requirements for the design of flexible electronic devices. The elastic nature of siloxane-based elastomers enables many innovative designs in wearable sensor devices and [...]

Wafer Level Assembly of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube (SWCNT) Arrays with Precise Positioning

Cao J., Arun A., Lister K., Acquaviva D., Bhandari J., Ionescu A.M., Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH

A novel wafer level assembly method to fabricate SWCNT arrays with precise positioning of each individual SWCNT by ac-dielectrophoresis (DEP) is presented. Unlike the previous CNT assembly performed directly between electrode pairs, in this work, [...]