Madou M.J. – TechConnect Briefs

Fabrication of 3D carbon microelectrodes for Li-Ion battery applications

Turon Teixidor G., Wang C., Madou M.J., University of California Irvine, US

The fabrication of very high-aspect ratio 3D carbon microelectrodes for Li-Ion batteries is presented. Using a pyrolysis process under inert conditions, thick layers of patterned SU-8 photoresist (up to 700 ?m in height) are converted [...]

Compact Disc (CD)-Based Automated Animal Assay

Kim N.H., Dempsey C.M., Zoval J., Sze J.Y., Madou M.J., University of California Irvine, US

Microfabricated platforms that allow automated cultivation and behavioral observation of Caenorhabditis elegans would be a valuable tool in physiological and genetic studies. Here, we report an automated microfluidic compact disc (CD) system conducive to the [...]

Carbon Microstructures for Glucose Biosensor

Xu H., Malladi K., Wang C., Madou M.J., University of California Irvine, US

In this work we report on a novel design and fabrication of glucose sensor based on carbon post electrode array. Apart from the fact that carbon has a wide electrochemical stability window, one advantage of [...]

Microfabrication and Mechanical Characterization of Suspended Carbon Microstructures

Malladi K., Wang C., Madou M.J., Xue W., Cui T., University of California Irvine, US

The idea of suspended carbon micro/nanostructures has been researched by a few research groups ], however, controlled fabrication of suspended carbon micro/nano structures in desired positions and with the desired shape and dimension is still [...]

Fast and Sensitive DNA Hybridization Through Micro- Fluidics

Marafie A.H., Madou M.J., University of California Irvine, US

The research target for DNA hybridization through micro-fluidics is to achieve a fast and very sensitive hybridization reaction by investigating the effect of different pertinent parameters using computational and experimental methods. The mathematical model that [...]

Fast DNA Immobilization and Hybridization on a CD (Compact Disc) Microfluidic Platform

Jia G., Ma K-S, Madou M.J., Kido H., Zoval J.V., Madou M.J., University of California at Irvine, US

A CD-based flow-through approach for DNA immobilization on gold surfaces was proposed and validated using 25-mer thiol-derivatized nucleotides (T-SH) labeled with fluorescent (Cy3) dye. Amino-derivatized ssDNA (T-amino) of the same sequence was used as a [...]