Naphthol is a widely used chemical and medical detection biomarker, but it harmful to human health the environment. Therefore, highly sensitive method for naphthol urgently required. Herein, an electrochemical microsensor simultaneous of isomers was fabricated by in situ growth three-dimensional graphene network (3DGN) on screen-printed electrodes. The exhibited good sensing responses typical (...

Meniscus-confined electrodeposition (MCED), as one of the multifunctional additive manufacturing methods for microsensor and flexible electrical interconnection, has great potential in future miniaturized communication devices. At present, however, understanding multiphysical field processes involved this method, such electrodeposition, fluid dynamics, mass heat transfer, is limited, deposition...

Kanai, Anthony, Michael Epperly, Linda Pearce, Lori Birder, Mark Zeidel, Susan Meyers, Joel Greenberger, William de Groat, Gerard Apodaca, and James Peterson. Differing roles of mitochondrial nitric oxide synthase in cardiomyocytes and urothelial cells. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 286: H13–H21, 2004; 10.1152/ajpheart. 00737.2003.—The existence of mitochondrial nitric oxide (NO) synthase (mt...

The effect of sulfate addition on the stability of, and microbial community behavior in, low-temperature anaerobic expanded granular sludge bed-based bioreactors was investigated at 15°C. Efficient bioreactor performance was observed, with chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal efficiencies of >90%, and a mean SO(2-) 4 removal rate of 98.3%. In situ methanogensis appeared unaffected at a COD: SO(...

BACKGROUND Oral appliance (OA) therapy is increasingly prescribed as a non-continuous positive airway pressure treatment modality for sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). Although OA therapy is reported to be efficacious for the treatment of SDB, data on compliance remain limited to self-report. METHODS In this 3-month prospective clinical trial, the main outcome was to assess the safety and fea...

Advances in CMOS IC and micro electrical-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology are enabling construction of low-cost building blocks each of which incorporates sensing, signal processing, and wireless communications. Collections of these integrated microsensor nodes may be formed into sensor networks in a wide variety of ways, with characteristics that depend on the specific application – the to...

A model of friction during thermosonic ball bonding is reported. It is based on recent ultrasonic stress measurements during ball bonding using piezoresistive microsensors integrated below test bonding pads. At the bonding pad, the microsensor signal is a measure for the stress caused by periodic oscillation of the capillary and gold ball. The new model interpretes the oscillation in terms of a...