There is a great deal of interests and efforts in the area of femtosecond (fs) laser direct writing of transparent materials, which shows promise to be a powerful and flexible technique for rapid fabrication of photonic micro-device, such as gratings, waveguides and optical amplifiers. Waveguide properties depend critically on the sample material properties and writing laser characteristics. In...

Fluid transport is accomplished in a micro throttle pump (MTP) by alternating deformation of a micro channel cast into a PDMS elastomeric substrate. The active deformation is achieved using a bimorph PZT piezoelectric disk actuator bonded to a glass diaphragm. The bimorph PZT deflects the diaphragm as well as alternately pushing and pulling the elastomer layer providing displacement amplificati...

Glass-ceramic macroporous scaffolds were prepared using glass powders and polyethylene (PE) particles of two different sizes. The starting glass, named as Fa-GC, belongs to the system SiO(2)-P(2)O(5)-CaO-MgO-Na(2)O-K(2)O-CaF(2) and was synthesized by a traditional melting-quenching route. The glass was ground and sieved to obtain powders of specific size which were mixed with PE particles and t...

Functional glass surfaces with the properties of superhydrophobicity/or superhydrohydrophilicity, anti-condensation or low reflectance require nano- or micro-scale roughness, which is difficult to fabricate directly on glass surfaces. Here, we report a novel non-lithographic method for the fabrication of nanostructures on glass; this method introduces a sacrificial SiO2 layer for anisotropic pl...

In this study, micro fluid channels are machined on fused silica glass via powder blasting, a mechanical etching process, and the machining characteristics of the channels are experimentally evaluated. In the process, material removal is performed by the collision of micro abrasives injected by highly compressed air on to the target surface. This approach can be characterized as an integration ...

In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that similar to other mechanical loads, notably cyclic stretch (simulating pre-load), glass microspheres simulating afterload will stimulate the secretion of angiogenic factors. Hence, we employed glass microspheres (average diameter 15.7 microm, average mass 5.2 ng) as a new method for imposing mechanical load on neonatal rat ventricular myocytes ...

This letter reports on the self-alignment of glass spheres using a liquid interacting with an electric field for surface modification. The liquid is electrically attracted and trapped between the glass spheres as a result of the electromeniscus phenomenon. The liquid between the spheres removes the electric charge on the spheres, enhances the attractive forces between the spheres, and works as ...

Micro-honeycomb structures with various pitches between adjacent cells were hot-embossed on Zr35Ti30Cu8.25Be26.75 bulk metallic glass surface. The effect of pitch geometry on the frictional behavior of metallic glass surface was systematically investigated. The results revealed that all textured metallic glass surfaces show a reduction in friction coefficient compared to smooth surface. More in...

Recently, the polymeric micro-fluidic biochip, often called LOC (lab-on-a-chip), has been focused as a cheap, rapid and simplified method to replace the existing biochemical laboratory works. It becomes possible to form miniaturized lab functionalities on a chip with the development of MEMS technologies. The micro-fluidic chips contain many micro-channels for the flow of sample and reagents, mi...