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A Microrobot for Intravascular Treatments

December 24, 2018

A particular challenge in intravascular treatments is the control of submillimeter guidewires. This requires a new microrobotics approach. A soft magnetic microrobot is required, consisting of (1) a flexible polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) [more...]

No Sugar Coating, But Sweet Nonetheless

April 9, 2017

No sugar coating. (Credit: Christian Böhler, Maria Asplund) Complex neurotechnological devices are required to directly select and influence brain waves inside the skull’s interior. Although it has become relatively easy to [more...]

Alternative Lab-on-a-Chip Material

February 24, 2016

A close-up image of micro-scale pillars that were formed — or, photostructured — in the OSTE polymer using UV light. (Credit: KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology have developed a new [more...]

Biomedical Microsystems

August 2, 2015

Book Description Amazon Link | CRC Press Link Author:  Ellis Meng Poised to dramatically impact human health, biomedical microsystems (bioMEMS) technologies incorporate various aspects from materials science, biology, chemistry, [more...]

Biodegradable, Flexible Silicon Transistors

July 5, 2015

A fresh CNF based microwave silicon transistor chip. After 3 weeks of putting it in a woodpile, the chip was partially degraded with the help of fungi. (Image Credit: Courtesy of Jung-Hun Seo, Shaoqin Gong and Zhenqiang Ma, University of [more...]