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Microscale Surface Tension and Its Applications

Building on advances in miniaturization and soft matter, surface tension effects are a major key to the development of soft/fluidic microrobotics. Benefiting from scaling laws, surface tension and capillary effects can enable sensing, actuation, adhesion, confinement, compliance, and other structura...

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Main Authors: Lambert, Pierre, Mastrangeli, Massimo
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
Subjects:
TA1-2040
T1-995
electrodynamic screen
soft tissue
microstructure
mist capillary self-alignment
droplet
lab-on-a-chip
mixing
nanoprecipitation
asymmetric surfaces
gecko setae
oil-water interface
non-invasive control
self-cleaning surface
corrosive resistance
micropipette-technique
hydrophobic
wettability gradient
lung-surfactants
hydrophilic
dynamic
vibrations
superhydrophobic
microasssembly
adsorption
wetting
photochemical reaction
contact line oscillation
355 nm UV laser
capillary
computational fluid dynamics
bearing
solutal Marangoni effect
relaxation oscillations
superhydrophilic
microtexture melting
rigid gas permeable contact lenses
hydrophilic/superhydrophobic patterned surfaces
polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) replication
microfabrication
actuation
droplet transport
“droplet-interface-bilayers”
microfluidics
electrosurgical scalpels
continuous-flow reactor
air-water surface
micromanufacturing
surface treatment
liquid bridge
stereolithography
super-hydrophobic
two-phase flow
hot drop
durable
insoluble lipids
anti-sticking
smart superhydrophobic surface
droplet manipulation
“black lipid films”
condensation
pick-and-place
wettability
gas-microbubbles
soft robotics
capillary pressure
superomniphobic
self-lubricating slippery surface
electrowetting
soluble surfactant
anisotropic ratchet conveyor
Nasturtium leaf
droplets
photoresponsible surfactant
two-photon polymerization
contact angle
adhesion
transport
pick and place
surface tension
oil-microdroplets
micromanipulation
laser die transfer
capillary gripper
equilibrium
thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
Online Access:42707
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