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Device and method for producing a combinatorial microcompartment within a carrier phase

The present disclosure provides a method and a microfluidic device for producing one or more combinatorial microcompartment comprising at least two sample species within a carrier phase, the microfluidic device comprising a target channel, a first sample s ...

2024

Deformation and Fracture of Tough Microstructured Hydrogels

Michael David Kessler

Many natural materials are structured on different length scales. This structuring often leads to an intricate interplay between soft and stiff components, which significantly improves the fracture toughness of these materials. A class of soft material tha ...

EPFL2022

Design and fabrication of a vigorous "cavitation-on-a-chip" device with a multiple microchannel configuration

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Mohammad Jafarpour

Hydrodynamic cavitation is one of the major phase change phenomena and occurs with a sudden decrease in the local static pressure within a fluid. With the emergence of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), high-speed microfluidic devices have attracted co ...

SPRINGERNATURE2021

Towards an artificial cell: Development of a system which self-regenerates the protein components of the PURE system in microfluidic reactors

Barbora Lavickova

Thanks to recent advancements in synthetic biology, the dream of creating a synthetic cell has become feasible. However, due to its inherent complexity, one of the fundamental functions of all living systems, i.e., self-replication, remains to be introduce ...

EPFL2021

Ultrasensitive optofluidic enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay by on-chip integrated polymer whispering-gallery-mode microlaser sensors

Jijun He

Optical whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) microcavities offer great promise in ultrasensitive biosensors because of their unique ability to enable resonant recirculation of light to achieve strong light-matter interactions in microscale volumes. However, it re ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Simulation of the microfluidic mixing and the droplet generation for 3D printing of nuclear fuels

Manuel Alexandre Pouchon, Ahmed Salaheldin Ahmed Shama

This paper presents the computational fluid dynamics modeling of an additive manufacturing process that is candidate for the production of Gen IV nuclear reactor fuels. The modeled process combines the internal gelation to produce metal hydrous oxides with ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Integrated microfluidic tools for the characterization of protein/DNA interactions in vitro and in vivo

Riccardo Dainese

The specific interaction between DNA and proteins constitutes one of the crucial elements in the regulation of gene expression. This thesis focuses on the development and optimization of two microfluidic-based technologies called SMiLE-seq and FloChIP that ...

EPFL2019

Large Array of Shape Memory Polymer Actuators for Haptics and Microfluidics

Nadine Besse

My thesis advances the field of shape memory polymer (SMP) actuators by providing a versatile strategy to arbitrarily reconfigure large arrays of densely packed latching soft actuators. It exploits two key intrinsic characteristics of SMPs, which are their ...

EPFL2018

PZE-transduced Suspended Microchannel Resonators for sensing applications

Annalisa De Pastina

This PhD thesis aims at developing a system which can measure the mechanical properties of fluidic samples in the picoliter range. The ultimate goal is the characterization of cancer cells and viscoelastic fluids (i.e. biological fluids), in order to study ...

EPFL2018

Methods and microfabrication techniques for subnanoliter magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Enrica Montinaro

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) spectroscopy can open up the possibility of studying many scientifically and biologically relevant samples at the µm and sub-µm scale. Examples of vol ...

EPFL2017

Phenotypic Heterogeneity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

John McKinney, Neeraj Dhar, Giulia Manina

The interaction between the host and the pathogen is extremely complex and is affected by anatomical, physiological, and immunological diversity in the microenvironments, leading to phenotypic diversity of the pathogen. Phenotypic heterogeneity, defined as ...

Amer Soc Microbiology2016

A High-Throughput Microfluidic Platform for Mammalian Cell Transfection and Culturing

Sebastian Maerkl, Kristina Pan Woodruff

Mammalian synthetic biology could be augmented through the development of high-throughput microfluidic systems that integrate cellular transfection, culturing, and imaging. We created a microfluidic chip that cultures cells and implements 280 independent t ...

Nature Research2016

Integrating Gene Synthesis and MITOMI for Rapid Protein Engineering

Matthew Christopher Blackburn

The research described within this thesis is primarily motivated by two fields of science with reversed, yet complementary, approaches to addressing the same essential objective: manipulating and understanding the complex program of life. Whereas synthetic ...

EPFL2016

Multifunctional shape memory electrodes for dielectric elastomer actuators enabling high holding force and low-voltage multisegment addressing

David James McCoul, Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Nadine Besse

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are an attractive form of electromechanical transducer, possessing high energy densities, an efficient design, mechanical flexibility, high speed, and noiseless operation. They have been incorporated into a variety of ...

Institute of Physics2016

Merging microfluidics and micro-array concepts: from molecular to nematode-based bioassays

Matteo Cornaglia

Essential in biomedical research is the necessity of gathering statistically relevant data about large populations of specific biological entities, e.g. organisms, cells or molecules, while preserving detailed information about each single entity under in ...

EPFL2015

A microfluidic process for on-chip formation of assemblies of oxide nanoparticles

Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Virendra Kumar Parashar, Josias Basil Wacker, Danut Necula

We report the continuous growth of spherical assemblies of silica and titania nanoparticles, which were pre-activated to produce hydroxyl/ peroxy groups on their surface, by flowing a colloid-in-dioctyl phthalate emulsion into a polydimethylsiloxane microf ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2014

A 1024-sample serum analyzer chip for cancer diagnostics

Sebastian Maerkl

We present a platform that combines microarrays and microfluidic techniques to measure four protein biomarkers in 1024 serum samples for a total of 4096 assays per device. Detection is based on a surface fluorescence sandwich immunoassay with a limit of de ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2014

Design and construction of a portable whole-cell living bacterial biosensor for the detection of arsenic in water

Nina Buffi

Contamination of drinking water with arsenic is a recurring problem in both industrialized and developing countries. Supplies for large populations can have concentrations much higher than the permissible levels, set by the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

EPFL2013

Allergy Diagnostics Using Magnetic Beads in a GRAVI-Cell Microfluidic Device

Hubert Girault, Natalia Gasilova, Anne-Laure Gassner

Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft2012

From particles to pillars: on-chip synthesis of silica nanoparticle assemblies with controlled shape and size

Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Virendra Kumar Parashar, Josias Basil Wacker

We describe the assembly of silica nanoparticles into superstructures with controlled shape and size. The individual nanoparticles are chemically linked to each other via silica bridges, thus providing high mechanical stability to the assembly. Key to cont ...

IEEE2011