microfabrication

Roche teams up with Alcyone LifeSciences in Precision Drug Delivery

December 25, 2018

Roche (OTCQX:RHHBY) will collaborate with privately held Alcyone Lifesciences in precision drug delivery aimed at optimizing intrathecal (injected into the spinal canal) therapies and developing antisense oligonucleotide treatments for [more...]

Photo-electro-chemical Deep Trench Etching in Gallium Nitride

August 25, 2018

SCIOCS Co Ltd and Hosei University, both of Japan, have reported progress in using photo-electro-chemical (PEC) etching for deep high-aspect-ratio trenches in gallium nitride (GaN) [Fumimasa Horikiri et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol11, [more...]

Driving Innovation With Glass Wafers in MEMS and Consumer Electronics

August 25, 2018

Microelectronic mechanical systems (MEMS) are systems that use both mechanical and electrical components, or small integrated devices. MEMS are critical components in nearly every industry. With the global consumer electronics market [more...]

Creating Precision Optical Components with Inkjet Printing

June 24, 2018

Researchers at the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) have developed an inkjet printing technique that can be used to print optical components, such as waveguides. The printing approach can also fabricate electronics [more...]

Minitech Machinery

May 5, 2018

About the company: Minitech Machinery providers a variety of desktop CNC manufacturing systems and also provides service and support for micro-machining. Their machines are compatible with Visual Mill (CAM) and Solidworks. They gain market [more...]

MIT Engineers Make Microfluidics Modular Using the Popular Interlocking Blocks

March 4, 2018

MIT engineers have just introduced an element of fun into microfluidics. The field of microfluidics involves minute devices that precisely manipulate fluids at submillimeter scales. Such devices typically take the form of flat, [more...]

Separating the weak from the strong: New device sorts sperm

January 22, 2018

For sperm, looks matter. As you might guess, sperm that have a wonky shape — a lopsided head or crooked tail, for example — also harbor wonky DNA. Those that are shapelier not only swim better, their genetic composition is superior [more...]

International MicroNano Conference 2017

December 12, 2017

The international MicroNanoConference has an established track record in bringing together the value chain of the different micro and nano fields of endeavour. The active involvement of the industry, science and user community of [more...]

1st International Electronic Conference on Micromachines and Applications

November 1, 2017

Letter from Editor: I am pleased to announce the 1st International Electronic Conference on Micromachines and Applications, which will be held on 1-15 November 2017 on this special platform, Sciforum, developed by MDPI in 2017. The [more...]

A Microfluidics-based in situ Chemotaxis Assay to Study the Behavior of Aquatic Microbial Communities

October 29, 2017

Method papers can be pretty frustrating to write: they rarely do justice to the amount of work needed to develop a new technique and present only the final, fully troubleshot, version of the work. However, we all know that a lot of trial [more...]

MicroTAS 2017

October 22, 2017

The 21st International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (µTAS 2017) will be held at the Savannah International Trade and Conference Center in Savannah, Georgia, USA from October 22 – 26, 2017. µTAS [more...]

Micro-ultrasonic Welding Using Thermoplastic-elastomeric Composite Film

September 4, 2017

Microfluidic Chip (Image Credit: A*STAR Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology) Microfluidics technology could revolutionize point-of-care medicine by making it possible to fabricate cheap, disposable card-sized plastic [more...]

Nehirbt

July 4, 2017

About the company: NehirBT is a producer of the microfluidics chips, fittings, connectors and accessories. We are focused on microfluidics applications on life science research such as cell sorting, cell analysis, drug development, POC [more...]

Researchers in Lincoln Laboratory Exploring the Feasibility of Fabricating Microfluidic Devices in Makerspaces

April 26, 2017

Microfluidic devices for performing various assays were created with the tools in Lincoln Laboratory's Technology Office Innovation Laboratory. (Photo credit: Nicole Fandel) For more than a decade, scientists have publicized the potential [more...]

Stencil Lithography for Scalable Micro- and Nanomanufacturing

April 24, 2017

Authors: Ke Du, Junjun Ding, Yuyang Liu, Ishan Wathuthanthri and Chang-Hwan Choi In this paper, we review the current development of stencil lithography for scalable micro- and nanomanufacturing as a resistless and reusable patterning [more...]

The Emerging Frontiers and Applications of High-Resolution 3D Printing

April 16, 2017

Authors: Mao Mao 1, ,Jiankang He 1,* ,Xiao Li 2, ,Bing Zhang 1, ,Qi Lei 1, Yaxiong Liu 1, and Dichen Li 1 State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China 2 Department [more...]

Engineers Shrink Atomic Force Microscope to Dime-sized Device

February 18, 2017

A MEMS-based atomic force microscope developed by engineers at UT Dallas is about 1 square centimeter in size (top center). Here it is attached to a small printed circuit board that contains circuitry, sensors and other miniaturized [more...]

Materials and Microfabrication Processes for Next-generation Brain-machine Devices

November 27, 2016

Implantable devices such as pacemakers, cochlear implants, and deep brain stimulation devices enhance the quality of life for many people. Improving the integration of such devices with the body could enable the next generation of [more...]

Droplet-based Testing of Biochemical Reactions in 10,000 Different Conditions

November 6, 2016

By producing a large number of droplets containing different reagents in slightly different concentrations, it is possible to generate a high resolution map of how a reaction proceeds from different starting conditions. Here, Anthony [more...]

3D-printed Heart-on-a-chip with Integrated Sensors

November 6, 2016

Harvard University researchers have made the first entirely 3D-printed organ-on-a-chip with integrated sensing. Built by a fully automated, digital manufacturing procedure, the 3D-printed heart-on-a-chip can be quickly fabricated and [more...]