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Effect of Substratum Morphology on Cell Behavior

Su W-T, Chu I-M, Yang J-Y, Lin C-D, National Nano Device Laboratories, TW

Contact guidance induced by the surface topography of the substrata influences the direction of cells with artificial material. Mouse bone marrow stromal fibroblast was examined on grooved substrata of varying dimension (0.3£gm~1.2£gm groove width, 0.5£gm [...]

Microfluidic System For High-Throughput Proteomics

Le Gac S., Arscott S., Druon C., Tabourier P., Rolando C., USTL, FR

The comparative study of a cell type whole proteome in normal, pathological conditions or under the administration of drugs, which is called differential proteomics, appears as a keytool to understand diseases. To reach this goal, [...]

Using Scalar Algebraic Multigrid Solvers for Efficient 3-D Stress Analysis of Microfabricated Structures

Mijalkovic S., Delft University of Technology, NL

A methodology to improve the performance of iterative solvers in 3-D stress analysis using scalar algebraic multigrid (AMG) solvers has been presented. The principle idea is to split the global system of coupled stress governing [...]