Micro/nano geometries with specified wall heat flux are widely encountered in electronic cooling and micro/nano-fluidic sensors. We introduce a new technique to impose the desired (positive/negative) wall heat flux boundary condition in the DSMC simulations. This technique is based on an iterative progress on the wall temperature magnitude. It is found that the proposed iterative technique has ...

We demonstrate a lab-on-a-chip that combines micro/nano-fabricated features with a Convex Lens-Induced Confinement (CLIC) device for the in situ analysis of single cells. A complete cycle of single cell analysis was achieved that includes: cell trapping, cell isolation, lysis, protein digestion, genomic DNA extraction and on-chip genomic DNA linearization. The ability to dynamically alter the f...

We explore the potentiality of high frequency impedance measurements with CMOS nano-electrode arrays for nano-plastic pollutant particles monitoring in water. This technology offers benefits as nano-scale resolution, parallelization, scalability, label-free single particle detection, and automatic without operator intervention. Simple models are proposed size concentration estimation. The forme...

Ti-TiC-TiC/DLC gradient nano-composite films have been prepared on the NiTi substrates by the technique of plasma immersion ion implantation and deposition (PIIID) combining with plasmaenhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD). The influence of C2H2 flow rate ranging from 30sccm to 50sccm on the chemical structure, microstructure, mechanical properties and corrosion resistance of resulting thi...

A review of some recent advances focusing on the problem of nano-scale fluids far from equilibrium modelled by nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) is presented. It will be demonstrated how novel materials such as dendrimers can be successfully modelled using NEMD methods and how the distortion of their geometry by the imposed field has a significant influence on the transport properties of...

Understanding nanofluidic behavior is of fundamental value to the development of many potential nano-technology applications, including high-performance energy absorption. We carry out non-equilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) simulations to study the transport characteristics of liquids in a confined nano-environment. It is shown that the distributed electric field arising from either an elect...

Single particle characterization has become increasingly relevant for research into extracellular vesicles, progressing from bulk analysis techniques and first-generation to comprehensive multi-parameter measurements such as nano-flow cytometry (nFCM). nFCM is a form of flow that utilizes instrumentation specifically designed nano-particle analysis, allowing thousands EVs be characterized per m...