Suspended Planar‐Array Chips for Molecular Multiplexing at the Microscale

Suspended Planar-Array Chips for Molecular Multiplexing at the Microscale.

A novel suspended planar-array chips technology is described, which effectively allows molecular multiplexing using a single suspended chip to analyze extraordinarily small volumes. The suspended chips are fabricated by combining silicon-based technology and polymer-pen lithography, obtaining increased molecular pattern flexibility, and improving miniaturization and parallel production. The chi...

Microrobotics for Molecular Biology: Manipulating Deformable Objects at the Microscale

Recent advances in molecular biology such as cloning demonstrate that increasingly complex micromanipulation strategies for manipulating individual biological cells are required. From a robotics standpoint, the manipulation of biological cells, sometimes referred to as biomanipulation, presents several interesting research issues that extend well beyond cell manipulation. Biological cells are h...

Dental tribology at the microscale

Dental wear caused by tooth care is a complex phenomenon that depends on the quality of the tooth material, the type of toothbrush and the brushing slurry. Tooth wear is commonly determined in abrasion experiments using a standardized toothbrush in contact with a radioactively labeled dentin sample (RDA method). The increase of radioactivity in the slurry is a direct and highly-sensitive indica...

Molecular Dynamics Method for Microscale Heat Transfer

Microscale swimming: the molecular dynamics approach.

The self-propelled motion of microscopic bodies immersed in a fluid medium is studied using molecular dynamics simulation. The advantage of the atomistic approach is that the detailed level of description allows complete freedom in specifying the swimmer design and its coupling with the surrounding fluid. A series of two-dimensional swimming bodies employing a variety of propulsion mechanisms-m...