Abstract When laser sources of high brilliance are used for the micro-welding metals, small seam dimensions generated. If spatial power is modulated by a superposition linear feed rate and circular-oscillatory movement frequency, width controlled amplitude circular movement. In this study, irradiation pattern was calculated reveals that some spots area not irradiated, while other have been irra...

This paper developed and evaluated a quantitative image analysis method to measure the concentration of the nanoparticles on which alkaline phosphatase (AP) was immobilized. These AP-labeled nanoparticles are widely used as signal markers for tagging biomolecules at nanometer and sub-nanometer scales. The AP-labeled nanoparticle concentration measurement can then be directly used to quantitativ...

Flow boiling of water across a bank of circular staggered micro-pin fins, 250 lm long and 100 lm diameter with pitch-to-diameter ratio of 1.5, was experimentally studied for mass fluxes ranging from 346 kg/m s to 794 kg/m s and surface heat fluxes ranging from 20 W/cm to 350 W/cm. Local temperature measurements were used to elucidate the two-phase heat transfer coefficients. The flow was visual...

TUUSAT-1A stands for Taiwan Universities United Satellite NO.1A. The micro-satellite research team includes scholars from Tamkang University, China Institute of Technology, National Formosa University, National Taiwan Ocean University and National Chia Yi University. The micro-satellite is 28 cm in height and weighs 40 kg and it is powered by solar energy. For image acquisition using GPS and CM...

In the present paper, we propose a method to fabricate a ‘‘micro-collimator’’ with a thickness of 15mm. A commercially available PADC film with a thickness of 100mm was first chemically etched with NaOH/ethanol solution to obtain a thin PADC film. This thin PADC film was then irradiated by 5MeV a particles through a ‘‘macro-collimator’’ with a thickness of 5mm and a hole diameter of 1mm. This P...

This paper presents the efforts at micro thermal stimulation to initiate the flight and control the direction of beetles. Experiments were carried out by mounting micro thermal stimulators at the base of the antenna of the Green June beetle (Cotinis nitida). Preliminary in vivo experiments with resistive micro-heaters demonstrate that the beetle generates a torque of 18mN-mm at an estimated tem...

The aim was to investigate the local osteogenic effect of fluvastatin incorporated into a biodegradable gelatin-hydrogel (GH) scaffold. The GH scaffolds were prepared through crosslinking by ultraviolet irradiation followed by freeze-drying. Two circular defects were surgically created on fifteen-week-old male rats calvaria. All defects of each rat were randomly filled with two of three treatme...

The tribological outcomes of micro dent are found to be outstanding in many engineering and natural surfaces. Ceramic (Al2O3) is considered one of the most potential material to bearing surfaces particularly, artificial hip or knee implant. A well-defined micro dent on alumina oxide interface could further decrease friction and wear rate, thus increase their stability and durability. In this st...

The fabrication of functional small diameter blood vessel analogs has implications in vascular disease treatment. Current 3D models of the medial vessel layer lack micron-scale topographical cues that have shown promise in vitro by recapitulating native vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) behavior. A major obstacle to fabricating 3D scaffolds is maintaining adequate nutrient diffusion to cells. ...

An experimental investigation was carried out to study the single-phase stagnation point jet impingement heat transfer on smooth and micro pin fin structures using water and R134a. The experiments were carried out for a single jet (dj = 2.0 mm) impinging on a 2 2 mm micro-heater over a wide range of Reynolds numbers. Both an unfinned and a micro structured impingement surfaces were investigated...