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Micromachines, Volume 10, Issue 7

July 2019 - 65 articles

Cover Story: Colon disease is seriously harmful to human health, and “early diagnosis and early treatment” is an effective strategy to lower its incidence rate. A tether-less capsule robot that can be introduced from the anus and can explore the colon in a non-invasive manner is a promising device to implement this strategy. However, the nonstructural colon environment can seriously lower the movement performance of the capsule robot, and a commercially available button cell is unable to power the capsule robot for a long duration. Therefore, the question of how to improve movement performance and how to supply sufficient electric power have become the hot topics in the field of capsule robots. View this paper
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Articles (65)

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,074 Views
12 Pages

A High Temperature Drop-On-Demand Droplet Generator for Metallic Melts

  • Saeedeh Imani Moqadam,
  • Lutz Mädler and
  • Nils Ellendt

17 July 2019

In this study we present the design and functionality of a pneumatic drop-on-demand droplet generator that produces metallic micro particles with a size range of 300 µm to 1350 µm at high temperatures of up to 1600 °C. Molten metal dr...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,005 Views
9 Pages

Programmable Electrofluidics for Ionic Liquid Based Neuromorphic Platform

  • Walker L. Boldman,
  • Cheng Zhang,
  • Thomas Z. Ward,
  • Dayrl P. Briggs,
  • Bernadeta R. Srijanto,
  • Philip Brisk and
  • Philip D. Rack

17 July 2019

Due to the limit in computing power arising from the Von Neumann bottleneck, computational devices are being developed that mimic neuro-biological processing in the brain by correlating the device characteristics with the synaptic weight of neurons....

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,191 Views
7 Pages

Improved MRD 4H-SiC MESFET with High Power Added Efficiency

  • Shunwei Zhu,
  • Hujun Jia,
  • Xingyu Wang,
  • Yuan Liang,
  • Yibo Tong,
  • Tao Li and
  • Yintang Yang

17 July 2019

An improved multi-recessed double-recessed p-buffer layer 4H–SiC metal semiconductor field effect transistor (IMRD 4H-SiC MESFET) with high power added efficiency is proposed and studied by co-simulation of advanced design system (ADS) and technology...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
81 Citations
10,520 Views
18 Pages

The Applications of 3D Printing for Craniofacial Tissue Engineering

  • Owen Tao,
  • Jacqueline Kort-Mascort,
  • Yi Lin,
  • Hieu M. Pham,
  • André M. Charbonneau,
  • Osama A. ElKashty,
  • Joseph M. Kinsella and
  • Simon D. Tran

17 July 2019

Three-dimensional (3D) printing is an emerging technology in the field of dentistry. It uses a layer-by-layer manufacturing technique to create scaffolds that can be used for dental tissue engineering applications. While several 3D printing methodolo...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,765 Views
11 Pages

Thread as a Low-Cost Material for Microfluidic Assays on Intact Tumor Slices

  • Maxwell Rumaner,
  • Lisa Horowitz,
  • Avital Ovadya and
  • Albert Folch

17 July 2019

In this paper we describe the use of thread as a low-cost material for a microfluidic chemosensitivity assay that uses intact tumor tissue ex vivo. Today, the need for new and effective cancer treatments is greater than ever, but unfortunately, the c...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,183 Views
23 Pages

In Vivo Tracking of Tissue Engineered Constructs

  • Carmen J. Gil,
  • Martin L. Tomov,
  • Andrea S. Theus,
  • Alexander Cetnar,
  • Morteza Mahmoudi and
  • Vahid Serpooshan

16 July 2019

To date, the fields of biomaterials science and tissue engineering have shown great promise in creating bioartificial tissues and organs for use in a variety of regenerative medicine applications. With the emergence of new technologies such as additi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,791 Views
15 Pages

16 July 2019

This paper compares two laser-assisted processes developed by the authors for the fabrication of microwave devices based on nanowire arrays loaded inside porous alumina templates. Pros and cons of each process are discussed in terms of accuracy, repr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,443 Views
15 Pages

16 July 2019

As one of the most promising micro-machining methods, electrochemical micro-machining is widely used in the field of metal micro-structures. The electrochemical micro-milling on Nickel-base superalloy by using high-speed spiral electrode was studied...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,091 Views
17 Pages

15 July 2019

Separating the particles from the liquid component of sample solutions is important for several microfluidic-based sample preparations and/or sample handling techniques, such as plasma separation from whole blood, sheath-free flow focusing, particle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,971 Views
10 Pages

15 July 2019

Wearable health monitoring smart systems based on flexible metal films are considered to be the next generation of devices for remote medical practice. However, cracks on the metallic surface of the films and difficulty in repeatability are the key i...

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Micromachines - ISSN 2072-666X