Overview
- Nominated as outstanding PhD Thesis by the University of Naples Federico II, Italy
- Presents a new, simple, and original method for the touch-less manipulation of liquids and polymers in plane and in 3D
- Demonstrates the potential of the new pyro-fluidic platform through the fabrication of optically active elements such as nanodroplets, microlenses, and microstructures
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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About this book
The thesis presents an original and smart way to manipulate liquid and polymeric materials using a “pyro-fluidic platform” which exploits the pyro-electric effect activated onto a ferroelectric crystal. It describes a great variety of functionalities of the pyro-electrohydrodynamic platform, such as droplet self-assembling and dispensing, for manipulating multiphase liquids at the micro- and nanoscale. The thesis demonstrates the feasibility of non-contact self-assembling of liquids in plane (1D) using a micro engineered crystal, improving the dispensing capability and the smart transfer of material between two different planes (2D) and controlling and fabricating three-dimensional structures (3D).
The thesis present the fabrication of highly integrated and automated ‘lab-on-a-chip’ systems based on microfluidics. The pyro-platform presented herein offers the great advantage of enabling the actuation of liquids in contact with a polar dielectric crystal through an electrode-less configuration. The simplicity and flexibility of the method for fabricating 3D polymer microstructures shows the great potential of the pyro-platform functionalities, exploitable in many fields, from optics to biosensing. In particular, this thesis reports the fabrication of optically active elements, such as nanodroplets, microlenses and microstructures, which have many potential applications in photonics.
The capability for manipulating the samples of interest in a touch-less modality is very attractive for biological and chemical assays. Besides controlling cell growth and fate, smart micro-elements could deliver optical stimuli from and to cells monitoring their growth in real time, opening interesting perspectives for the realization of optically active scaffolds made of nanoengineered functional elements, thus paving the way to fascinating Optogenesis Studies.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Manipulation of Multiphase Materials for Touch-less Nanobiotechnology
Book Subtitle: A Pyrofluidic Platform
Authors: Sara Coppola
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31059-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-31058-9Published: 11 April 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80952-6Published: 25 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-31059-6Published: 03 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 109
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 76 illustrations in colour
Topics: Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films, Nanotechnology and Microengineering, Microengineering