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Droplet Actuation Enhancement through Voltage Control and Hydrophobic Coating Selection [PDF]

MATEC Web of Conferences
This paper presents a novel digital microfluidics platform that utilizes PCB substrate designed on Easy EDA software and is based on electrowetting on a dielectric (EWOD) phenomenon.
Ullah Hammas, Ali Moazzam, Naeem Nauman, Iqbal Faisal, Abbas Hamza, Jafry Ali Turab, Ajab Huma   +6 more
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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas, Marzia Dulal, Sophia K. Novoselov, Victoria K. Novoselov, Kostya S. Novoselov, Shaila Afroj, Nazmul Karim   +6 more
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Tuning Mechanoreceptor Signaling Enhances the Adjuvant Effect of Biomaterial Vaccines

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Matrix stiffness serves as an independent immunological signal in biomaterial vaccines. Stiffer microporous hydrogel vaccines enhance dendritic cell maturation and migration to draining lymph nodes, promote T follicular helper cell expansion through Yap/Taz signaling, and increase antigen‐specific antibody production.
Lily Shang, Daniel P. Mayer, Prabhat K. Purbey, Yingzi Liu, Kindra Kelly‐Scumpia, Clara Kang, Natalie Tsubamoto, Dhriti Bolangadi, Iqra Arshad, Charisse Ng, Maksim V. Plikus, Dino Di Carlo, Jason S. Weinstein, Philip O. Scumpia   +13 more
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Circulating tumour cell RNA characterisation from colorectal cancer patient blood after inertial microfluidic enrichment

MethodsX, 2019
The detection and molecular analysis of circulating tumour cells (CTCs) potentially provides a significant insight to the characterisation of disease, stage of progression and therapeutic options for cancer patients.
Marnie Winter, Zhen Cai, Katharina Winkler, Kristen Georgiou, Daniel Inglis, Tina Lavranos, Meysam Rezaei, Majid Warkiani, Benjamin Thierry   +8 more
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Silicone Phase Behavior Resolves the Softness–Surface Functionality Trade‐Off in Emerging Stretchable Electronics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Ultrasoft silicone elastomers often sacrifice surface functionality for mechanical compliance. In Mold Star, low‐molecular‐weight species form a dispersed phase that weakens the network and passivates the surface. Solvent extraction removes this phase, unexpectedly improving both extensibility and metallization performance, enabling conductive ...
Gloria M. D'Amaral, Rahaf Nafez Hussein, Tiago Carneiro Gomes, Jordan E. Nicholson, Lauren J. Renaud, Emily J. Addison, Simon Rondeau‐Gagné, Tricia Breen Carmichael   +7 more
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Digital Microfluidic Platform to Maximize Diagnostic Tests with Low Sample Volumes from Newborns and Pediatric Patients

Diagnostics, 2020
“Children are not tiny adults” is an adage commonly used in pediatrics to emphasize the fact that children often have different physiological responses to sickness and trauma compared to adults.
Rama S. Sista, Rainer Ng, Miriam Nuffer, Michael Basmajian, Jacob Coyne, Jennifer Elderbroom, Daniel Hull, Kathryn Kay, Maithri Krishnamurthy, Christopher Roberts, Daniel Wu, Adam D. Kennedy, Rajendra Singh, Vijay Srinivasan, Vamsee K. Pamula   +14 more
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Increasing Inter‐Micellar Connectivity Toughens and Imparts Cooling‐Induced Shape Memory in Micellar Hydrogels

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Oligomerizing Pluronic triblock copolymers provides a processing strategy for tuning the mechanical properties and stimuli‐responsive behaviors of micellar hydrogels. Varying oligomer fraction produces hydrogels spanning brittle to highly extensible responses; maintaining micellar architectures enables cooling‐induced reverse thermal shape memory and ...
Gourav Kumbhojkar, Eric Yang, Arman Moussavi, EunBi Oh, Haeji Kim, Wei Chen, Junsoo Kim, Sinan Keten, Ryan L. Truby   +8 more
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Droplet-Based Microfluidics with Mass Spectrometry for Microproteomics

Engineering
Microproteomics, the profiling of protein expressions in small cell populations or individual cells, is essential for understanding complex biological systems.
Hang Li, Yudan Ma, Rongxin Fu, Jiaxi Peng, Yanbing Zhai, Jinhua Li, Wei Xu, Siyi Hu, Hanbin Ma, Aaron R. Wheeler, Shuailong Zhang   +10 more
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Droplet Microfluidics as a Tool for the Generation of Granular Matters and Functional Emulsions

KONA Powder and Particle Journal, 2018
Emulsion—a liquid dispersed in another liquid—is in many respects very similar to granular matter. In the early 2000s a new technology—droplet microfluidics—began emerging from the wider field of microfluidics.
Adam S. Opalski, Tomasz S. Kaminski, Piotr Garstecki   +2 more
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An Electrowetting Pump

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A tubular electrowetting pump moves alternating droplets through a millimeter‐wide channel in discrete, reversible steps, functioning as a fluidic stepper motor. With no moving parts and electrodes insulated from the liquid, it delivers silent, accurate flow. Flexibility allows the pump to be woven directly into textiles for wearable, medical, and soft‐
Robert Hennig, Herbert Shea
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