Breaking the clean room barrier: exploring low-cost alternatives for microfluidic devices

CF Rodríguez, V Andrade-Pérez, MC Vargas… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Microfluidics is an interdisciplinary field that encompasses both science and engineering,
which aims to design and fabricate devices capable of manipulating extremely low volumes …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing tolerances in direct write laser grayscale lithography and reactive ion etching pattern transfer for fabrication of 2.5 D Si master molds

J Cunha, IS Garcia, JD Santos, J Fernandes… - Micro and Nano …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Direct Write Laser (DWL) Grayscale (GS) lithography has gathered attention as a
versatile technological solution to fabricate arbitrary and complex 2.5 D structures in …

Protein-coated nanostructured surfaces affect the adhesion of Escherichia coli

P Kallas, H Valen, M Hulander, N Gadegaard… - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Develo** new implant surfaces with anti-adhesion bacterial properties used for medical
devices remains a challenge. Here we describe a novel study investigating nanotopography …

3D printed tooling for injection molded microfluidics

N Convery, I Samardzhieva… - Macromolecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Microfluidics have been used for several decades to conduct a wide range of research in
chemistry and the life sciences. The reduced dimensions of these devices give them …

[HTML][HTML] Optimisation of interlocking microstructured adhesive joints via finite element modelling, design of experiments and 3D printing

A Hamilton, Y Xu, ME Kartal, S Kumar… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The potential to optimise the performance of microstructured joints based on mechanically
interlocking adherends is investigated via experimental testing and finite element (FE) …

3D printing and rapid replication of advanced numerically generated rough surface topographies in numerous polymers

J Perris, C Kumar, Y Xu, M Tassieri… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
An approach to rapidly produce high‐quality polymer surface topographies from numerically
generated surfaces is presented. The approach uses an advanced surface generation tool …

Tailorable and repeatable normal contact stiffness via micropatterned interfaces

J Perris, Y Xu, ME Kartal, N Gadegaard, DM Mulvihill - Tribology Letters, 2021 - Springer
An approach to producing interfaces with tailored and repeatable normal contact stiffness
using micropatterned surfaces is developed. A finite element model is first used to design …

Studies on the fabrication and contact stiffness of mechanical interfaces with tailored rough and structured surfaces

JAN Perris - 2023 - theses.gla.ac.uk
Contact stiffness is a measure of how interface separation displacement will respond to an
applied load. Contact stiffness is most directly affected by interface geometry, material …