Nanofabricated adjustable multicontact devices on membranes.

Study of Uremic Toxin Fluxes Across Nanofabricated Hemodialysis Membranes Using Irreversible Thermodynamics

INTRODUCTION The flux of uremic toxin middle molecules through currently used hemodialysis membranes is suboptimal, mainly because of the membranes' pore architecture. AIM Identifying the modifiable sieving parameters that can be improved by nanotechnology to enhance fluxes of uremic toxins across the walls of dialyzers' capillaries. METHODS We determined the maximal dimensions of endotheli...

Micro- and Nanofabricated Platforms: From Hydrogel Sensors to Therapeutic Devices

Nanofabricated structures and microfluidic devices for bacteria: from techniques to biology.

Nanofabricated structures and microfluidic technologies are increasingly being used to study bacteria because of their precise spatial and temporal control. They have facilitated studying many long-standing questions regarding growth, chemotaxis and cell-fate switching, and opened up new areas such as probing the effect of boundary geometries on the subcellular structure and social behavior of ...

Quantum Wires and Quantum Dots for Neutral Atoms

By placing changeable nanofabricated structures (wires, dots, etc.) on an atom mirror one can design guiding and trapping potentials for atoms. These potentials are similar to the electrostatic potentials which trap and guide electrons in semiconductor quantum devices like quantum wires and quantum dots. This technique will allow the fabrication of nanoscale atom optical devices. PACS. 03.75.Be...

Optomechanical Crystal Devices

We present the basic ideas and techniques utilized in recent work on optomechanical crystals. Optomechanical crystals are nanofabricated cavity optomechanical systems where the confinement of light and motion is obtained by nanopatterning periodic structures in thin-films. In this chapter we start from a basic review of the properties of optical and elastic waves in nanostructures, before intro...