Review on silver nanoparticle synthesis method, antibacterial activity, drug delivery vehicles, and toxicity pathways: recent advances and future aspects

DC Lekha, R Shanmugam, K Madhuri… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Silver nanoparticles in the range from 1 to 100 nm are widely used in industrial applications
as catalysis, electronics, and photonics, and they have unique properties such as optical …

Electrothermally activated SU-8 microgripper for single cell manipulation in solution

N Chronis, LP Lee - Journal of Microelectromechanical systems, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of a SU-8-based microgripper that can operate in physiological ionic
solutions is presented. The electrothermally activated polymer gripper consists of two" hot …

Nanotopographical guidance of C6 glioma cell alignment and oriented growth

B Zhu, Q Zhang, Q Lu, Y Xu, J Yin, J Hu, Z Wang - Biomaterials, 2004 - Elsevier
The surface properties of the extracellular matrix play vital roles in cellular behavior such as
adhesion, spreading, migration, proliferation and differentiation. While cell attachment and …

Fabrication of elastomeric high-aspect-ratio microstructures using polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) double casting technique

G Shao, J Wu, Z Cai, W Wang - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2012 - Elsevier
A new polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) double casting technique is presented for the
fabrication of high-aspect-ratio flexible microstructures. Experimental results showed that …

Towards microfabricated biohybrid artificial lung modules for chronic respiratory support

KA Burgess, HH Hu, WR Wagner… - Biomedical …, 2009 - Springer
We have utilized soft lithography techniques to create three-dimensional arrays of blood
microchannels and gas pathways in poly (dimethylsiloxane)(PDMS) that approach the …

Active 3-D microscaffold system with fluid perfusion for culturing in vitro neuronal networks

L Rowe, M Almasri, K Lee, N Fogleman, GJ Brewer… - Lab on a Chip, 2007 - pubs.rsc.org
This work demonstrated the design, fabrication, packaging, and characterization of an active
microscaffold system with fluid perfusion/nutrient delivery functionalities for culturing in vitro …

Antimicrobial biocompatible bioscaffolds for orthopaedic implants

AT Qureshi, L Terrell, WT Monroe… - Journal of tissue …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Nationally, nearly 1.5 million patients in the USA suffer from ailments requiring bone
grafts and hip and other joint replacements. Infections following internal fixation in …

Flexible fabrication of three-dimensional multi-layered microstructures using a scanning laser system

H Yu, B Li, X Zhang - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2006 - Elsevier
In this paper, we developed a scanning laser system, which allows rapid processing of
freeform multi-layered microstructures. More importantly it enables rapid prototyping of three …

Fabrication and investigation of PDMS micro-diffuser/nozzle

YT Chen, SW Kang, LC Wu, SH Lee - Journal of materials processing …, 2008 - Elsevier
This study presents reports on the fabrication and testing of micro-nozzle/diffuser with curved
profile boundary. In this paper, different polymers are used for the fabrication of micro …

High aspect ratio SU-8 structures for 3-D culturing of neurons

Y Choi, R Powers, V Vernekar… - ASME …, 2003 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This paper presents a simplified fabrication method for high aspect ratio micromachined
towers for culturing 3-D networks of neurons. The photosensitive epoxy SU-8 was used as …