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Microscopic pore structures and controlling factors of the Micro- and Nano- Scale tight sandstone reservoirs in the Western Sichuan Depression, China

Wang Q., Chen D., Zhang B., Li L., China University of Petroleum, CN

Western Sichuan Depression (WSD) has a natural gas resource of about 31646.98×108 m3 and 251 commercial gas wells among which the largest single well productivity can be as high as 151×104 m3/d (Well X851), indicating [...]

Simulation of Gas Flows in Micro Devices by Solving the Boltzmann Kinetic Equation

Anikin Yu.A., Dodulad O.I., Kloss Yu.Yu., Martynov D.V., Tcheremissine F.G., Shuvalov P.V., Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, National research centre “Kurchatov institute”, RU

Numerical modeling of gas flows in micro devices has practical value due to the high application opportunities of such devices to the relevant industries. Gas behavior is accurately described by the Boltzmann equation of the [...]

Microfluidic Platforms with Micro- and Nanopore Membranes and in situ Formation of Lipid Bilayer in the Microfluidic Platform

Choi J., Kim N., Park S., Louisiana State University, US

Artificial lipid bilayer membranes have come into the spotlight as topics of fundamental properties of biomaterials, targets for drug discovery and safety screening, and analytic platforms for characterization and orientation discrimination of polynucleotide molecules. Lipid [...]

In-situ Quantitative Integrated Tribo-SPM Nano-Micro-Metrology

Gitis N., Daugela A., Vinogradov M., CETR, US

Quantitative nano-metrology tools have become a standard in semiconductor, data storage and other hi-tech industries where products are tested for thin-film properties. Though it is critical to characterize advanced thin films and coatings, today’s off-line [...]

Nano-Cantilevers for an Ultra-Sensitive Bio-Assay

Zheng J., Klein K., Pucha R., Sitaraman S.K., Sitaraman S.V., Merlin D., Rajalakshmi S., Sarma D.S.R., Gerwirtz A., Sitaraman S.K., Sitaraman S.V., Georgia Institute of Technology, US

Micro and Nano-scale cantilever arrays are being developed for an ultra sensitive bio-assay (Figure 1). The advantage of these cantilevers is that they eliminate the use of laser for deflection detection, which is impractical for [...]

Criterion for Electrostatic Detachment of an Adhering Microparticle

Saito S., Himeno H., Takahashi K., Onzawa T., Tokyo Institute of Technology, JP

During micromanipulation, the influence of gravitational force becomes extremely small. The adhesional force is more significant for smaller objects. An adhered object can be detached by electrostatic interaction. In our earlier study, the electrostatic force [...]