Micro, Volume 2, Issue 1

The encapsulation of clove essential oil (CEO) in hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin (HP-β-CD) and the subsequent incorporation of the inclusion complex in an elastic chitosan film in order to achieve a controlled release profile of the volatile...

Current commercially available in vitro skin models do not fully reproduce the structure and function of the native human skin, mainly due to their use of animal-derived collagen and their lack of a dynamic flow system. In this study, a full-thicknes...

Cu2P3I2 wires were synthesized and converted to Ag2P3I2 via post-synthetic modification. Single-wire and thin film devices were constructed from each material and evaluated as rapidly reversible humidity sensing semiconductors. All devices exhibited...

This study examines the preparation of several composites that are based on natural magnesium hydroxide (n-MDH) and various poly(ethylene-co-octene) polyolefin elastomers (POEs). Design of experiment (DoE) principles have been applied in order to opt...

This investigation is motivated by increasing interest in diamond and composite films for applications in biomedical and electronic devices. A biomimetic strategy is based on the use of commercial bile acids, such as ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) and h...

In the present work we report for the first time the carbonization of biomass waste, such as stale bread and spent coffee, in piranha solution (H2SO4-H2O2) at ambient conditions. Carbonization is fast and exothermic, resulting in the formation of car...

Microscale optofluidic devices are a category of microscale devices combining fluidic and optical features. These devices typically enable in-situ fluid flow measurement for pharmaceutical, environmental or biomedical applications. In micro-optofluid...

To utilize β-Ti based high temperature (HT) shape memory alloys (SMAs), a high Al concentration of 14 mol% was designed for sufficient suppressing the undesired ω-phase. HTSMA exhibits shape memory effect (SME) above 373 K, and thus the op...

Biosample analysis often requires the purification, separation, or fractionation of a biofluid prior to transport to the biosensor. Deterministic lateral displacement (DLD) is a size-based microfluidic separation technique that shows promise for bios...

Ge2Sb2Te5 based devices attract the attention of researchers due to wide opportunities in designing phase change memory. Herein, we studied a possibility to fabricate periodic micro- and nanorelief at surfaces of Ge2Sb2Te5 thin films on silicon oxide...