scholarly journals Rapid and simple preparation of thiol–ene emulsion-templated monoliths and their application as enzymatic microreactors

Lab on a Chip ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 2162-2172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josiane P. Lafleur ◽  
Silja Senkbeil ◽  
Jakub Novotny ◽  
Gwenaël Nys ◽  
Nanna Bøgelund ◽  
...  

A novel, rapid and simple method for the preparation of emulsion-templated monoliths in microfluidic channels based on thiol–ene chemistry is presented.

The Analyst ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 145 (21) ◽  
pp. 6974-6980
Author(s):  
Juhwan Park ◽  
Hwisoo Kim ◽  
Je-Kyun Park

We developed a simple method for liquid handling in a hanging drop array chip for spheroid culture and analysis by integrating microfluidic channels operated by pushbuttons.


2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 563-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dileep Mampallil ◽  
Dirk van den Ende ◽  
Frieder Mugele

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 222-230
Author(s):  
Youn-Jun Lee ◽  
Chang-Gu Lee ◽  
Jin-Kyu Kang ◽  
Seong-Jik Park ◽  
Pedro J. J. Alvarez

This study investigates a simple method for the preparation of floating photocatalysts in which the surface of expanded polystyrene (EPS) is partially dissolved using a diluted solvent that contains TiO2 particles.


Micromachines ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Fornell ◽  
Per Söderbäck ◽  
Zhenhua Liu ◽  
Milena De Albuquerque Moreira ◽  
Maria Tenje

We have developed a fast and simple method for fabricating microfluidic channels in silicon using direct laser writing. The laser microfabrication process was optimised to generate microfluidic channels with vertical walls suitable for acoustic particle focusing by bulk acoustic waves. The width of the acoustic resonance channel was designed to be 380 µm, branching into a trifurcation with 127 µm wide side outlet channels. The optimised settings used to make the microfluidic channels were 50% laser radiation power, 10 kHz pulse frequency and 35 passes. With these settings, six chips could be ablated in 5 h. The microfluidic channels were sealed with a glass wafer using adhesive bonding, diced into individual chips, and a piezoelectric transducer was glued to each chip. With acoustic actuation at 2.03 MHz a half wavelength resonance mode was generated in the microfluidic channel, and polystyrene microparticles (10 µm diameter) were focused along the centre-line of the channel. The presented fabrication process is especially interesting for research purposes as it opens up for rapid prototyping of silicon-glass microfluidic chips for acoustofluidic applications.


Processes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fudi Lin ◽  
Jing Ye ◽  
Yayan Huang ◽  
Yucheng Yang ◽  
Meitian Xiao

A simple method for obtaining pure and well-defined oligosaccharides was established by hydrolyzing agar with β-agarase from Vibrio natriegens. The conditions for enzymolysis were optimized as follows: a temperature of 45 °C, a pH of 8.5, a substrate concentration of 0.3%, an enzyme amount of 100 U/g and an enzymolysis time of 20 h. Neoagaro-oligosaccharides with different degrees of polymerization were obtained by hydrolyzing agar with β-agarase for different lengths of time. After removing pigments using activated carbon and salts by dialyzing, the enzyme hydrolysis solution was separated with Bio-Gel P2 column chromatography. Neoagaro-oligosaccharides with different degrees of polymerization were acquired. By comparing with authentic standard substances, along with further confirmation by FTIR, MS and NMR, structures of the purified neoagaro-oligosaccharides were identified as neoagarobiose (NA2), neoagaroteraose (NA4), neoagarohexaose (NA6), neoagarooctaose (NA8), neoagaro-decaose (NA10) and neoagarododecaose (NA12) with purities of more than 97.0%. The present study established a method for the preparation of various neoagaro-oligosaccharides that may be of great significance for further study of their bioactivities.


2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (21) ◽  
pp. 2607-2610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Midori Teshima ◽  
Takahiro Seki ◽  
Yukikazu Takeoka

We established a simple method for preparing Janus particles displaying different structural colors using submicron-sized fine silica particles and magnetic nanoparticles composed of Fe3O4.


Lab on a Chip ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 1812-1820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dishit P. Parekh ◽  
Collin Ladd ◽  
Lazar Panich ◽  
Khalil Moussa ◽  
Michael D. Dickey

This paper demonstrates a simple method to fabricate 3D microchannels at room temperature by printing liquid metal as a sacrificial template.


Author(s):  
K.-H. Herrmann ◽  
E. Reuber ◽  
P. Schiske

Aposteriori deblurring of high resolution electron micrographs of weak phase objects can be performed by holographic filters [1,2] which are arranged in the Fourier domain of a light-optical reconstruction set-up. According to the diffraction efficiency and the lateral position of the grating structure, the filters permit adjustment of the amplitudes and phases of the spatial frequencies in the image which is obtained in the first diffraction order.In the case of bright field imaging with axial illumination, the Contrast Transfer Functions (CTF) are oscillating, but real. For different imageforming conditions and several signal-to-noise ratios an extensive set of Wiener-filters should be available. A simple method of producing such filters by only photographic and mechanical means will be described here.A transparent master grating with 6.25 lines/mm and 160 mm diameter was produced by a high precision computer plotter. It is photographed through a rotating mask, plotted by a standard plotter.


Author(s):  
Dean A. Handley ◽  
Jack T. Alexander ◽  
Shu Chien

In situ preparation of cell cultures for ultrastructural investigations is a convenient method by which fixation, dehydration and embedment are carried out in the culture petri dish. The in situ method offers the advantage of preserving the native orientation of cell-cell interactions, junctional regions and overlapping configurations. In order to section after embedment, the petri dish is usually separated from the polymerized resin by either differential cryo-contraction or solvation in organic fluids. The remaining resin block must be re-embedded before sectioning. Although removal of the petri dish may not disrupt the native cellular geometry, it does sacrifice what is now recognized as an important characteristic of cell growth: cell-substratum molecular interactions. To preserve the topographic cell-substratum relationship, we developed a simple method of tapered rotary beveling to reduce the petri dish thickness to a dimension suitable for direct thin sectioning.


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