Screen printing technology is a widely used technique for the fabrication of electrochemical sensors. This methodology is likely to underpin the progressive drive towards miniaturized, sensitive and portable devices, and has already established its route from "lab-to-market" for a plethora of sensors. The application of these sensors for analysis of environmental samples has been the major focu...

A novel non-lithographic technique for the fabrication of carbon nanotube thin film transistors is presented. The whole transistor fabrication process requires only one mask which is used both to pattern transistor channels based on aerosol synthesized carbon nanotubes and to deposit electrodes by metal evaporation at different angles. An important effect of electrodynamic focusing was utilized...

in this paper, a novel technique on friction aided deep drawing using tapered blank holder divided into eight segments is proposed to overcome defect of friction aided deep drawing using four segments tapered blank holder technique. a taper blank holder is designed to be of two parts: stationary part with 5 degree taper angle and moving parts divided into eight tapered segments. the main functi...

Hard occlusal guards have been used effectively to treat myofacial pain originating from parafunctional activities. Also, they can protect the natural dentition when it opposes porcelain restorations, help to evaluate changes in occlusal vertical dimension during full mouth rehabilitation, minimize further tooth loss in patients with abfraction lesions, and redirect occlusal loads more favorabl...

The array of numerous metallic nanowires with straight shape has much attention due to their shape anisotropy and extremely large surface area. This unique structure can be applied to develop the novel functional nano-materials such as electronic, magnetic and optical nano-scale devices. Metallic nanowires can be fabricated by manipulating metallic atoms one by one using a scanning tunneling mi...

Increasing life expectancy, age-related reduction in adaptability and progressive severe mandibular resorption, all add to the difficulty in achieving prosthetic success. The conventional mandibular denture is usually less retentive than the maxillary one and successful treatment involves the development of lingual retention for the mandibular denture. Several methods taking into account physio...

Zheng Cui Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Chilton, Didcot Oxon OX11 0QX United Kingdom Abstract. A new photolithographic technique that combines the advantages of a programmable digital liquid crystal display (LCD) system and projection photolithography system to fabricate arbitrarily shaped microstructures using LCD panels as real-time masks is reported. Its principle and design method are expl...

Metal in particle form is useful in fabrication of silicon nanowires [1], superlattice nanowires [2], colloidal solutions, biomedical applications [3,4], photonics [5] and sensors [6]. Incorporation of such research into manufacturing processes requires new research in fabrication processes for scalable and reproducible low cost arrays of nanoparticles. Exploiting known metallurgical sciences, ...

Marina Y. Zavodchikova*,1, Albert G. Nasibulin1, Tero Kulmala2, Kestutis Grigoras2, Anton S. Anisimov1, Sami Franssila2, Vladimir Ermolov3, and Esko I. Kauppinen1 1 NanoMaterials Group, Laboratory of Physics and Center for New Materials, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland 2 Microfabrication Group, Micro and Nanosciences Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finlan...