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Micromachines, Volume 4, Issue 2

June 2013 - 12 articles

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Articles (12)

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
9,680 Views
14 Pages

On-Chip Enucleation of Bovine Oocytes using Microrobot-Assisted Flow-Speed Control

  • Lin Feng,
  • Masaya Hagiwara,
  • Akihiko Ichikawa and
  • Fumihito Arai

21 June 2013

In this study, we developed a microfluidic chip with a magnetically driven microrobot for oocyte enucleation. A microfluidic system was specially designed for enucleation, and the microrobot actively controls the local flow-speed distribution in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
9,887 Views
15 Pages

Microfluidic Platform for Enzyme-Linked and Magnetic Particle-Based Immunoassay

  • Nikhil Bhalla,
  • Danny Wen Yaw Chung,
  • Yaw-Jen Chang,
  • Kimberly Jane S. Uy,
  • Yi Ying Ye,
  • Ting-Yu Chin,
  • Hao Chun Yang and
  • Dorota G. Pijanowska

18 June 2013

This article presents design and testing of a microfluidic platform for immunoassay. The method is based on sandwiched ELISA, whereby the primary antibody is immobilized on nitrocelluose and, subsequently, magnetic beads are used as a label to detect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
11,941 Views
14 Pages

7 June 2013

Analysis of electric fields generated inside the microchannels of a microfluidic device for electrical lysis of biological cells along with experimental verification are presented. Electrical lysis is the complete disintegration of cell membranes, du...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,966 Views
11 Pages

5 June 2013

This paper presents a novel method for fabricating nanopillar micropatterns for surface-directed liquid flows. It employs hybrid mask lithography, which uses a mask consisting of a combination of a photoresist and nanoparticles in the photolithograph...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,760 Views
17 Pages

Automated Ultrafiltration Device for Environmental Nanoparticle Research and Implications: A Review

  • Tsung M. Tsao,
  • Ya N. Wang,
  • Yue M. Chen,
  • Yu M. Chou and
  • Ming K. Wang

3 June 2013

Nanoparticle research and development have brought significant breakthroughs in many areas of basic and applied sciences. However, efficiently collecting nanoparticles in large quantities in pure and natural systems is a major challenge in nanoscienc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
9,706 Views
9 Pages

Photomasks Fabrication Based on Optical Reduction for Microfluidic Applications

  • Emanuele Orabona,
  • Alessandro Caliò,
  • Ivo Rendina,
  • Luca De Stefano and
  • Mario Medugno

28 May 2013

A procedure for fabrication of photomasks on photographic films with minimum feature achievable of about 20 μm, which are particularly suitable for the fast prototyping of microfluidic devices, has been improved. We used a commercial photographic enl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
9,033 Views
9 Pages

7 May 2013

This paper presents a microfluidic system for the active and precise control of microdroplet division in a micro device. Using two horizontal pneumatic valves formed at downstream of bifurcating microchannel, flow resistances of downstream channels w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
85 Citations
11,824 Views
29 Pages

Review on Electrodynamic Energy Harvesters—A Classification Approach

  • Clemens Cepnik,
  • Roland Lausecker and
  • Ulrike Wallrabe

29 April 2013

Beginning with a short historical sketch, electrodynamic energy harvesters with focus on vibration generators and volumes below 1dm3 are reviewed. The current challenges to generate up to several milliwatts of power from practically relevant flows an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
10,767 Views
11 Pages

Fabrication of a Polymer High-Aspect-Ratio Pillar Array Using UV Imprinting

  • Hidetoshi Shinohara,
  • Hiroshi Goto,
  • Takashi Kasahara and
  • Jun Mizuno

17 April 2013

This paper presents UV imprinting methods for fabricating a high-aspect-ratio pillar array. A polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) mold was selected as the UV imprinting mold. The pillar pattern was formed on a 50 × 50 mm2 area on a polyethylene terephthalate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
15,781 Views
11 Pages

2 April 2013

This paper presents improvements in flow detection by electrical cross-correlation spectroscopy. This new technique detects molecular number fluctuations of electrochemically active analyte molecules as they are transported by liquid flow through a n...

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