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A New Gas/Supercritical Fluid (SCF) Diffusivity and Solubility Measurement Method for CO2 Saturated Polymer Systems Using Optical Transmission Property

Yao S.X., Lee J-K, Lee J., Lee P-C, Lee J-K, Lee J., Lee P-C, Jun M.B.G., Lee J-K, Lee J., Lee P-C, University of Vermont, US

Supercritical fluids (SCFs) and gases are widely used in polymer processing. For example, plastic foam products used for light-weight structural components, heat insulation, and food packaging can be fabricated by nano-/micro-cellular foaming processes with gases [...]

Photonic Crystal Fiber Based Refractive Index Sensor

Nazeri K., Ahsani V., Ahmed F., Lee P-C, Jun M.B.G., Purdue University, US

Photonic Crystal Fiber (PCF) is an optical fiber which owes its waveguide properties to an arbitrary arrangement of closely-spaced and tiny air holes that go through the whole length of fiber. Much attention has been [...]

Self-Sustained Infrared Temperature Sensor Arrays

Mittmann Reis R., Rochester Institute of Technology, US

The constantly growing needs for solid-state temperature sensors motivates micromachined thermopile sensors [1-11]. We examine the Seebeck effect and discuss the the key physical parameters and characteristics. The micromachined microstructures are designed and fabricated. We [...]

Self-Assembled Polystyrene Nanospheres for Plasmonic Enhancement in Biosensor Applications

Smith K., Norville C., Windham M., Dawson J.M., West Virginia University, US

The field of portable, point-of care biosensing has expanded in recent years to encompass a wide range of application areas, with detection of targets accomplished by a variety of techniques. Application-specific needs of further reduced [...]

LIF based fluorescent immunosensor using AP-SNs and QDs for quantitation of IgG anti Toxocara canis in human serum samples

Messina G.A., Aranda P.R., Pereira S.V., Bertolino F.A., Raba J., INQUISAL, National University of San Luis, CONICET, AR

Toxocariasis, one of the most common zoonotic infection worldwide, is caused by Toxocara canis (T. canis), or less commonly, Toxocara cati [1,2]. In humans, the infection is acquired by oral route through accidental ingestion of [...]

Real-time bacterial capture and sorting using dielectrophoresis and electroosmosis

Simon S.X., Markewich H., Mallick E., Weber M., Fluid-Screen, Inc., US

Fluid-Screen, Inc. presents a bacterial capture and sorting method based on dielectrophoresis (DEP) and electroosmosis (EO). These electronic phenomena have been known to influence particle motion and capture since the 1960’s, however, technology based on [...]

Laser-Induced Motion of a Nanofluid in a Micro-channel

Tran P.X., Wang P., National Energy Technology Lab, US

Laser-Induced Motion of a Nanofluid in a Micro-channel Tran X. Phuoc, Mehrdad Massoudi and Ping Wang National Energy Technology Laboratory, U. S. Department of Energy, P. O. Box 10940 Pittsburgh, PA 15236 * Corresponding author: [...]

Interaction of a millimeter sized droplet on the powder substrates and study of capillarity in porous media flow

Avhad A.G., Tan H., Washington State University, US

Droplet impact on powder materials is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature and engineering technologies including powder-binder based 3D printing, wet granulation, spray drying, powder coating, agricultural sprays, water erosion of soil, and raindrops landing on [...]

Two-phase spontaneous capillary microflows and the transport of capillary wagons

Berthier E., Berthier J., Brakke K., Lee Jing, Gosselin D., Navarro F., Theberge A., Berthier E., Berthier J., CEA-LETI, FR

The use of capillarity to move fluids at the microscale has been soaring lately due to new applications in medicine, biology, biotechnology, energy, thermic and space. Especially of interest are open capillary channels. These channels [...]

Numerical Analysis of Acoustophoretic Discrete Particle Focusing in Microchannels

Karampelas I.H., Gómez-Pastora J., Cowan M.J., Bringas E., Ortiz I., Furlani E.P., Flow Science Inc., US

Acoustophoretic particle focusing is a modern and very attractive method of removing a variety of objects from solutions in a microfluidic channel [1]. The process is inherently general and can be readily extended for multiple [...]