Preparation of a Micropatterned Rigid-Soft Composite Substrate for Probing Cellular Rigidity Sensing

Author(s):  
Stephanie Wong ◽  
Wei-hui Guo ◽  
Ian Hoffecker ◽  
Yu-li Wang
Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1113
Author(s):  
Mohammed Asadullah Khan ◽  
Jürgen Kosel

An integrated polymer-based magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) pump that can actuate saline fluids in closed-channel devices is presented. MHD pumps are attractive for lab-on-chip applications, due to their ability to provide high propulsive force without any moving parts. Unlike other MHD devices, a high level of integration is demonstrated by incorporating both laser-induced graphene (LIG) electrodes as well as a NdFeB magnetic-flux source in the NdFeB-polydimethylsiloxane permanent magnetic composite substrate. The effects of transferring the LIG film from polyimide to the magnetic composite substrate were studied. Operation of the integrated magneto hydrodynamic pump without disruptive bubbles was achieved. In the studied case, the pump produces a flow rate of 28.1 µL/min. while consuming ~1 mW power.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1128 (1) ◽  
pp. 012031
Author(s):  
Nadzeefah Zamil ◽  
M N M Ansari ◽  
Y E Jalil ◽  
Noor Afeefah Nordin ◽  
Zainudin Yahya ◽  
...  

Actuators ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boxi Xia ◽  
Aslan Miriyev ◽  
Cesar Trujillo ◽  
Neil Chen ◽  
Mark Cartolano ◽  
...  

The actuation of silicone/ethanol soft composite material-actuators is based on the phase change of ethanol upon heating, followed by the expansion of the whole composite, exhibiting high actuation stress and strain. However, the low thermal conductivity of silicone rubber hinders uniform heating throughout the material, creating overheated damaged areas in the silicone matrix and accelerating ethanol evaporation. This limits the actuation speed and the total number of operation cycles of these thermally-driven soft actuators. In this paper, we showed that adding 8 wt.% of diamond nanoparticle-based thermally conductive filler increases the thermal conductivity (from 0.190 W/mK to 0.212 W/mK), actuation speed and amount of operation cycles of silicone/ethanol actuators, while not affecting the mechanical properties. We performed multi-cyclic actuation tests and showed that the faster and longer operation of 8 wt.% filler material-actuators allows collecting enough reliable data for computational methods to model further actuation behavior. We successfully implemented a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network model to predict the actuation force exerted in a uniform multi-cyclic actuation experiment. This work paves the way for a broader implementation of soft thermally-driven actuators in various robotic applications.


2015 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 152-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugo Rodrigue ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Binayak Bhandari ◽  
Min-Woo Han ◽  
Sung-Hoon Ahn

2006 ◽  
Vol 303 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Garcia-Sanchez ◽  
O. Chubykalo-Fesenko ◽  
O.N. Mryasov ◽  
R.W. Chantrell

2015 ◽  
Vol 659 ◽  
pp. 304-309
Author(s):  
Khemmakorn Gomonsirisuk ◽  
Thanakorn Wasanapiarnpong

Organic contaminated wastes water from petrochemical industries can be removed by adsorbent and photocatalyst. In this work, the degradation rate of phenol have been studied at different ratios of activated carbon/NaA zeolite composite materials coated with TiO2 photocatalyst which are easily to be fabricated into tubular shape by extrusion method. In addition, the foam-inserted composite can be floated on the surface of waste water for the higher phocatalyst activity. While the composite is the low cost adsorbent with high absorption and high ion exchange properties. In order to optimize the efficiency of material, the various ratios of activated carbon/NaA zeolite (3:1, 1:1 and 1:3) and amount of coated TiO2 on the specimen’s surface was studied by UV/Vis spectrophotometer which related to phenol concentration. Moreover the various amount of phenolic resins (10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 wt%) at different reduction firing temperatures (600 and 650 °C) with soaking time of 1, 2 and 3 hours affected to the compressive strength of samples. For the characterization, XRD is used to characterize the phase and SEM is used to provide the morphology of the prepared composite materials.


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