Biotemplated Fabrication of a Multifunctional Superwettable Shape Memory Film for Wearable Sensing Electronics and Smart Liquid Droplet Manipulation

Author(s):  
Lili Ma ◽  
Jiaxin Wang ◽  
Jinmei He ◽  
Yali Yao ◽  
Xuedan Zhu ◽  
...  



Lab on a Chip ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 1793-1801 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Kyu Park ◽  
Seok Kim

Manipulation of a liquid droplet on a structured shape memory polymer surface with thermal Marangoni and morphological gradient forces.



2005 ◽  
Vol 17 (06) ◽  
pp. 293-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
MING-YIH LEE ◽  
HUNG-CHIA LIN ◽  
HUNG-WEI CHIANG ◽  
WEI-XUN LEE ◽  
XIAN-DONG HUANG

The aim of this study is to develop a non-continuous droplet manipulation technology in contrast to conventional continuous flow micro-fluidic systems. The droplets were manipulated based on the proposed opto-wetting effect. In addition, an experimental ultraviolet (UV) light actuated droplet manipulation system was developed for verifying the opto-wetting droplet manipulation. The proposed opto-wetting effect was achieved by utilizing ultraviolet to activate oxidation-reduction mechanism of nano-TiO2 photo catalyst coated base material. The water-affinity of the base material will changed due to the decreased free-energy of the material surface. Therefore, the contact angle between the liquid droplet and base material will also be changed which facilitates droplet manipulability. The main components of the proposed ultraviolet (UV) light actuated droplet manipulation system include ultraviolet masking device, moving platform and main frame structure. System software and user interface were designed by using Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 toolkit. Upon completion of the proposed system, experiments were carried out to verify system functionalities. Follow by the controlled variable optimization using Taguchi method and liquid droplet manipulation experiments. The experiment results indicate that by exposure to 6.8mW UV light, the surface tension and hydrophilic property of nano-TiO2 (anatase type, 3.5% concentration, PH 1.5, and with average particle size of 69 nm) coated base material will changed. The change of surface tension and hydrophilic property were critical for droplet manipulation. The moving speed of the liquid droplet was measured as 3.33mm/sec. The results suggest that the opto-wetting system may be effective to overcome the shortcoming of traditional opto-electrowetting technique. The proposed opto-wetting droplet manipulation system could potentially applied for manipulating biomedical or pathological test specimens in the future.



Lab on a Chip ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen-Qi Ye ◽  
Yun-Yun Wei ◽  
Dan-Ni Wang ◽  
Chun-Guang Yang ◽  
Zhang-Run Xu

Droplet manipulation on a near-infrared light-responsive shape-memory micropillar array.





2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (18) ◽  
pp. 2000772 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Li ◽  
Jinrong Li ◽  
Liwu Liu ◽  
Yufeng Yan ◽  
Qiuya Zhang ◽  
...  


RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (71) ◽  
pp. 66729-66737 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seulah Lee ◽  
Sanggeun Lee ◽  
Hyunseok Hwang ◽  
Juree Hong ◽  
Soonil Lee ◽  
...  

The ultrafast bouncing motion of a liquid droplet has been investigated for droplet manipulation with a single droplet actuator using an electrostatic force for the first time.



2019 ◽  
pp. 1900653 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junchang Guo ◽  
Dehui Wang ◽  
Qiangqiang Sun ◽  
Linxian Li ◽  
Huaixia Zhao ◽  
...  


Author(s):  
F. I. Grace

An interest in NiTi alloys with near stoichiometric composition (55 NiTi) has intensified since they were found to exhibit a unique mechanical shape memory effect at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory some twelve years ago (thus refered to as NITINOL alloys). Since then, the microstructural mechanisms associated with the shape memory effect have been investigated and several interesting engineering applications have appeared.The shape memory effect implies that the alloy deformed from an initial shape will spontaneously return to that initial state upon heating. This behavior is reported to be related to a diffusionless shear transformation which takes place between similar but slightly different CsCl type structures.



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