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Using Robotics to Assemble Graphene Supercapacitor

Wu C., Wu S., Kim J., Magluyan D., Kawamoto-Kindred D., Zhou Y.H., Cao N., Zhao H., Kuang Z., Kidd T., Wu C., Wu S., Dobbs S., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, US

Robotics is a field that seeks to use more precise and accurate mechanical manipulation to improve the speed, efficiency, and safety of certain tasks where human actions would be more of a liability than a [...]

Reviving natural product and drug discovery pipelines with fungal artificial chromosome (FAC) technology

Clevenger K., Bok J.W., Ye R., Miley G., Velk T., Chen C., Yang K.H., Gao P., Lamprecht M., Thomas P., Islam M.D., Keller N., Kelleher N., Wu C., Intact Genomics, Inc., US

We have developed the fungal artificial chromosome [FAC, or autonomously replicating E. coli- fungal shuttle bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC)] vector and system. The FAC technology enables unbiased capturing of 263 full-length large secondary metabolite (SM) [...]

Dispersion of Carbon Nanotubes with Organic Dyes

Zhang W., Wu C., Zhang W., Dalian University of Technology, CN

Owing to the presence of van der Waals’ forces, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have the propensity to aggregate together and form bundles, which considerably hinders their applications. In this paper, organic dyes were used to suspend [...]

The Application of Ansperical Microlens Array on Direct Backlight System

Tsou C., Lai T., Huang C., Chang C., Wu C., Feng Chia University, TW

Today’s liquid crystal displays (LCDs) have to achieve more brightness and better uniformity in a thinner package, especially for the large-sized LCD panels with direct-type LED backlight system. Different reflective and transmissive characteristics managed by [...]

Ceramic Microarrays for Aggressive Environments

Atre S.V., Wu C., Simmons K.L., Laddha S., Jain K., Lee S., Park S-J, German R.M., Oregon Nanoscience & Microtechnologies Institute, US

The effect of particle characteristics and polymer rheology on the fabrication of sintered ceramic microarrays using powder injection modling is examined. The impact of material composition on microfeature resolution and defect avoidance during processing was [...]

Design, Fabrication & Testing of a Ceramic Microreactor for Nanoparticle Synthesis

Jain K., Wu C., Atre S., Kimura S., Jovanovic G., Sprenkle V., Canfield N., Narayanan V., Roy S., Oregon Nanoscience & Microtechnologies Institute, US

Nanoscale ceramic powders offer attractive prospects as building blocks for various high performance applications due to their excellent mechanical, thermal, dielectric and corrosion properties. Despite the availability of a plethora of nanoparticle synthesis processes the [...]

Design & Fabrication of Ceramic Microarrays Using Powder Injection Molding

Atre S.V., Wu C., Park S-J, Simmons K., Oregon Nanoscience & Microtechnologies Institute, US

Microsystem technology has propelled the development of micro and multi-scale manufacturing techniques for more than a decade. Among these techniques, micro powder injection molding is drawing attention recently as one of the most cost-effective processes [...]