A variety of extrinsic chiral metamaterials were fabricated by a combination of self-ordering anodic oxidation of aluminum foil, nanoimprint lithography and glancing angle deposition. All of these techniques are scalable and pose a significant improvement to standard metamaterial fabrication techniques. Different interpore distances and glancing angle depositions enable the plasmonic resonance ...

The validness of the expiration dates (validity period) that manufacturers provide on food product labels is a crucial food safety problem. Governments must study how to use their authority by implementing fair awards and punishments to prompt manufacturers into adopting rigorous considerations, such as the effect of adopting new storage methods for extending product validity periods on expecte...

Original scientific paper One of the most important features in lithography is the stability of the printing plates during the printing process. The offset printing plates are mainly built of aluminium foil which is processed to obtain surface structure needed for printing process requirements. Printing plate is during printing process under mechanical and chemical influence of the machine part...

The ability to reproducibly produce and effectively collect electrosprayed polymeric microspheres with controlled morphology and size in bulk form is challenging. In this study, microparticles were produced by electrospraying polycaprolactone (PCL) of various molecular weights and solution concentrations in chloroform, and by collecting materials on different substrates. The resultant PCL micro...

Laser Foil Printing (LFP) is a novel recently developed Additive Manufacturing (AM) process that fabricates components using metal foils in layer-by-layer fashion. LFP has found to perform better than some other well-known AM methods, such as Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF), especially for challenging materials, like aluminum alloys, due the high oxidation level of powders during melting and solidific...

This paper investigates the effect of driving voltage on the attachment force of an electroadhesion actuator, as the existing literature on the saturation of the adhesive force at a higher electric field is incomplete. A new type of electroadhesion actuator using normally available materials, such as aluminum foil, PVC tape and a silicone rubber sheet used for keyboard protection, has been deve...

Laminated aluminum foils are increasingly being used to protect drug products packaged in semipermeable containers (e.g., low-density polyethylene (LDPE)) from degradation and/or evaporation. The direct contact of such materials with primary packaging containers may potentially lead to adulteration of the drug product by extractable or leachable compounds present in the closure system. In this ...

Three-dimensional (3-D) nanostructures have demonstrated enticing potency to boost performance of photovoltaic devices primarily owning to the improved photon capturing capability. Nevertheless, cost-effective and scalable fabrication of regular 3-D nanostructures with decent robustness and flexibility still remains as a challenging task. Meanwhile, establishing rational design guidelines for 3...

113 Abstract: TVB-N (total volatile basic nitrogen) concentration in fish muscle was used as an index of freshness quality to compare the spoilage of rainbow trout wrapped in cling film and in aluminium foil. TVB-N levels in different muscle tissue and in the whole fish were measured every two days for a period of 16 days at 4-6 ̊C. In addition, three different methods of determining of TVB-N we...

It is now possible to circumvent costly and complex cleanroom fabrication procedures to produce MHz-order acoustically-driven microfluidic platforms through the use of electrode strips cut simply from kitchen aluminium foil and pressed against piezoelectric substrates. Cleanroom deposition, lithographic patterning, and etching are entirely avoided in favor of this cut-and-place technique, which...