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Micromachines, Volume 8, Issue 4

April 2017 - 39 articles

Cover Story: A fanciful ball design has been used to demonstrate the 4D printing abilities of entrapped enzymes in photopolymerized hydrogels to mimic biological functions. Such tools are able to generate specific catalytic signals over time in response to environmental stimuli. Two examples of 4D printed tools are presented in this paper to illustrate progressions towards biosensing and biomimetic applications. The first one is based on the printing of the enzymatic couple glucose oxidase/peroxidase for the chemiluminescent detection of glucose; the second one uses printed alkaline phosphatase to generate in situ programmed and localized calcification of the printed object. View the paper
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Articles (39)

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,477 Views
9 Pages

19 April 2017

Biomedical coatings are used to promote the wear resistance and the biocompatibility of a mechanical heart valve. An orbital shaking test was proposed to assess the durability of the coatings by the amount material eroded by the surrounding fluid. Ho...

  • Review
  • Open Access
49 Citations
18,918 Views
24 Pages

Stencil Lithography for Scalable Micro- and Nanomanufacturing

  • Ke Du,
  • Junjun Ding,
  • Yuyang Liu,
  • Ishan Wathuthanthri and
  • Chang-Hwan Choi

19 April 2017

In this paper, we review the current development of stencil lithography for scalable micro- and nanomanufacturing as a resistless and reusable patterning technique. We first introduce the motivation and advantages of stencil lithography for large-are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
10,274 Views
12 Pages

Paper-Based Analytical Device for Zinc Ion Quantification in Water Samples with Power-Free Analyte Concentration

  • Hiroko Kudo,
  • Kentaro Yamada,
  • Daiki Watanabe,
  • Koji Suzuki and
  • Daniel Citterio

18 April 2017

Insufficient sensitivity is a general issue of colorimetric paper-based analytical devices (PADs) for trace analyte detection, such as metal ions, in environmental water. This paper demonstrates the colorimetric detection of zinc ions (Zn2+) on a pap...

  • Review
  • Open Access
54 Citations
14,901 Views
21 Pages

18 April 2017

Enzymes are extremely valuable tools for industrial, environmental, and biotechnological applications and there is a constant need for improving existing biological catalysts and for discovering new ones. Screening microbe or gene libraries is an eff...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,088 Views
6 Pages

18 April 2017

The 2016 International Symposium of Flexible and Stretchable Electronics (ISFSE2016), co-sponsored by the Flexible Electronics Research Center, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) & State Key Laboratory of Digital Manufacturing a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,918 Views
13 Pages

18 April 2017

A novel micromanipulation technique of multi-objectives based on vibrating bubbles in an open chip environment is described in this paper. Bubbles were created in an aqueous medium by the thermal energy converted from a laser. When the piezoelectric...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,593 Views
13 Pages

16 April 2017

In order to identify the influence of the vacuum environment on the performance of a comb-drive microscanner, and indicate the optimum pressure for enhancing its performance, a comb-drive microscanner fabricated on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
70 Citations
14,273 Views
38 Pages

14 April 2017

Robust and inexpensive dry adhesives would have a multitude of potential applications, but replicating the impressive adhesive organs of many small animals has proved challenging. A substantial body of work has been produced in recent years which has...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,863 Views
8 Pages

13 April 2017

It is meaningful to study the surface morphology of monocrystalline material, but there are few studies on the surface roughness of quartz. So, surface roughness of Z-cut quartz etched by pure ammonium bifluoride and ammonium bifluoride mixed with is...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,974 Views
18 Pages

The Use of Microfluidics in Cytotoxicity and Nanotoxicity Experiments

  • Scott C. McCormick,
  • Frederik H. Kriel,
  • Angela Ivask,
  • Ziqiu Tong,
  • Enzo Lombi,
  • Nicolas H. Voelcker and
  • Craig Priest

12 April 2017

Many unique chemical compounds and nanomaterials are being developed, and each one requires a considerable range of in vitro and/or in vivo toxicity screening in order to evaluate their safety. The current methodology of in vitro toxicological screen...

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