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Microfluidics assisted platforms for biotechnological applications [PDF]

, 2011
The aim of this PhD work is to exploit microfluidics features to improve the performances of some lab-on-a-chip designed for biotechnological applications: microfabrication techniques developed in the frame of telecommunication systems have by far found ...
Orabona, Emanuele
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Flexible Microfluidics: Fundamentals, Recent Developments, and Applications [PDF]

, 2019
Miniaturization has been the driving force of scientific and technological advances over recent decades. Recently, flexibility has gained significant interest, particularly in miniaturization approaches for biomedical devices, wearable sensing ...
Jun Zhang, Hedieh Fallahi, Fallahi, Hedieh, Hoang-Phuong Phan, Phan, Hoang-Phuong, Nam-Trung Nguyen, Nam-Trung, Nguyen, Zhang, Jun   +7 more
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Capillary-driven flow microfluidics devices for point-of-care diagnostics

, 2021
Capillary-driven flow microfluidics offers the ability of loading samples into microchannels without the requirement for external pumping mechanisms.
Sammer Ul Hassan, Carter, S, Singh, S, Steve Carter, Edward Dyson, Sehaj Singh, Xunli Zhang, Rimmer, S, Dyson, E, Stephen Rimmer, Zhang, X, Hassan, SU   +11 more
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A Parametric Study on a Paper-Based Bi-Material Cantilever Valve

Micromachines, 2022
The novel paper-based Bi-Material Cantilever (B-MaC) valve allows the autonomous loading and control of multiple fluid reagents which contributes to the accurate operation of paper-based microfluidic devices utilized for biological and chemical sensing ...
Hojat Heidari-Bafroui, Ashutosh Kumar, Amer Charbaji, Winfield Smith, Nassim Rahmani, Constantine Anagnostopoulos, Mohammad Faghri   +6 more
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Customised micro-electrode array (MEA) test setup featuring a silicone-casted overlay with two chambers for separated cell seedings

Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, 2021
Micro-electrode array (MEA) systems are noninvasive platforms for the investigation of electrophysiological properties of cell layers, such as spontaneously active cardiomyocytes.
Mau Robert, Kussauer Sophie, Matzmohr Uta, David Robert, Seitz Hermann   +4 more
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Special issue on magnetic-based microfluidics

, 2012
This editorial summarises the significance of the contributions to the special issue on magnetic-based microfluidics. Magnetic-based microfluidics or micro magnetofluidics is a research area that combines the advantages of microfluidics and magnetism ...
Nguyen, Nam-Trung
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Hand-Powered Elastomeric Pump for Microfluidic Point-of-Care Diagnostics

Micromachines, 2020
The pumping of fluids into microfluidic channels has become almost an unavoidable operation in all microfluidic applications. Such a need has seen an outburst of several techniques for pumping, out of which the majority of techniques involve complicated ...
Gangadhar Eluru, Jayesh Vasudeva Adhikari, Priyalaxita Chanda, Sai Siva Gorthi   +3 more
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Zinculose: A new fibrous material with embedded zinc particles

Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal, 2021
In this paper, we report a simple and inexpensive procedure to make a composite material of cellulose fibers with embedded zinc micoparticles. This fibrous material is produced by sedimentation and is referred to as “Zinculose”.
Amer Charbaji, Winfield Smith, Constantine Anagnostopoulos, Mohammad Faghri   +3 more
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Microfluidics for Microswimmers: Engineering Novel Swimmers and Constructing Swimming Lanes on the Microscale, a Tutorial Review

, 2021
International audienceThis paper provides an updated review of recent advances in microfluidics applied to artificial and biohybrid microswimmers.
Priyanka Sharan, Sharan, Priyanka, Lesher‐pérez, Sasha Cai, Simmchen, Juliane, Sasha Cai Lesher‐Pérez, Audrey Nsamela, Nsamela, Audrey, Juliane Simmchen   +7 more
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Influence of the Velocity and the Number of Polishing Passages on the Roughness of Electrolytic Plasma Polished Pipe Inner Surfaces

Metals, 2018
Electrolytic plasma polishing (EPP) is an emerging technology for polishing, cleaning, deburring and smoothing of free-formed metal surfaces. The electrolytic plasma polishing of outer metal surfaces is state-of-the-art, whereas the polishing of pipe ...
Matthias Cornelsen, Carolin Deutsch, Hermann Seitz   +2 more
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