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Micromachines, Volume 9, Issue 12

December 2018 - 72 articles

Cover Story: A particular challenge in intravascular treatments is the control of submillimeter guidewires. This requires a new microrobotics approach. A soft magnetic microrobot is required, consisting of (1) a flexible polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) body, (2) two permanent magnets, and (3) a micro-spring connector designed and controlled in any 2D arbitrary paths. The proposed soft microrobot has the potential to improve guidewire control in a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) phantom. View this paper.
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Articles (72)

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,979 Views
11 Pages

19 December 2018

This work focuses on the effect of remote phonon arising from the substrate and high-κ gate dielectric on electron mobility in two-dimensional (2D) InSe field-effect transistors (FETs). The electrostatic characteristic under quantum confinement...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,185 Views
11 Pages

Sacrificial Layer Technique for Releasing Metallized Multilayer SU-8 Devices

  • Anand Tatikonda,
  • Ville P. Jokinen,
  • Hanno Evard and
  • Sami Franssila

19 December 2018

The low fabrication cost of SU-8-based devices has opened the fields of point-of-care devices (POC), µTAS and Lab-on-Chip technologies, which call for cheap and disposable devices. Often this translates to free-standing, suspended devices and a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,884 Views
14 Pages

19 December 2018

Micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) accelerometers are widely used in the inertial navigation and nanosatellites field. A high-performance digital interface circuit for a high-Q MEMS micro-accelerometer is presented in this work. The mechanical noi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,762 Views
11 Pages

One-Step Preparation of Durable Super-Hydrophobic MSR/SiO2 Coatings by Suspension Air Spraying

  • Zhengyong Huang,
  • Wenjie Xu,
  • Yu Wang,
  • Haohuan Wang,
  • Ruiqi Zhang,
  • Ximing Song and
  • Jian Li

19 December 2018

In this study, we develop a facial one-step approach to prepare durable super-hydrophobic coatings on glass surfaces. The hydrophobic characteristics, corrosive liquid resistance, and mechanical durability of the super-hydrophobic surface are present...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,719 Views
8 Pages

Au@Cu Nanoarrays with Uniform Long-Range Ordered Structure: Synthesis and SERS Applications

  • Pinhua Zhang,
  • Haoming Sun,
  • Wenhui Guan,
  • Jinjin Liang,
  • Xiaomeng Zhu,
  • Junkai Zhang,
  • Min Chen,
  • Meng Cao,
  • Wenbing Qian and
  • Kefu Gao
  • + 1 author

19 December 2018

The nanostructures with uniform long-range ordered structure are of crucial importance for performance standardization of high-quality surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectra. In this paper, we described the fabrication and SERS properties o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
130 Citations
11,729 Views
19 Pages

Nanowire-Based Biosensors: From Growth to Applications

  • Pranav Ambhorkar,
  • Zongjie Wang ,
  • Hyuongho Ko,
  • Sangmin Lee,
  • Kyo-in Koo,
  • Keekyoung Kim and
  • Dong-il (Dan) Cho

19 December 2018

Over the past decade, synthesized nanomaterials, such as carbon nanotube, nanoparticle, quantum dot, and nanowire, have already made breakthroughs in various fields, including biomedical sensors. Enormous surface area-to-volume ratio of the nanomater...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,988 Views
11 Pages

Demulsification of Kerosene/Water Emulsion in the Transparent Asymmetric Plate-Type Micro-Channel

  • Da Ruan,
  • Diliyaer Hamiti,
  • Zheng-Dong Ma,
  • Ya-Dong Pu and
  • Xiao Chen

19 December 2018

Asymmetric plate-type micro-channels (APM) have one hydrophobic wall and one hydrophilic wall. By flowing through APM, a kerosene-in-water emulsion can be de-emulsified in one second. To date, however, the demulsification process in the APM is still...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,305 Views
13 Pages

19 December 2018

Culturing cellular tissues inside a microchannel using an artificial three-dimensional (3D) microstructure is normally conducted to elucidate and reproduce a biological function. The thick photoresist SU-8, which has a microscale resolution and high...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,946 Views
11 Pages

Hyaluronate-Functionalized Graphene for Label-Free Electrochemical Cytosensing

  • Aihua Jing,
  • Chunxin Zhang,
  • Gaofeng Liang,
  • Wenpo Feng,
  • Zhengshan Tian and
  • Chenhuan Jing

18 December 2018

Electrochemical sensors for early tumor cell detection are currently an important area of research, as this special region directly improves the efficiency of cancer treatment. Functional graphene is a promising alternative for selective recognition...

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