Microfluidic devices with a dual function containing both a solid-phase extractor and an enzymatic microreactor have been prepared, and their operation has been demonstrated. The devices were fabricated from a 25-mm-long porous poly(butyl methacrylate-co-ethylene dimethacrylate) monolith prepared within a 50-microm-i.d. capillary. This capillary with a pulled 9-12-microm needle tip was used as ...

This paper presents an innovative approach to maximally disconnect a given network. More specifically, this work introduces the concept of a critical disruption path, a path between a source and a destination vertex whose deletion minimizes the cardinality of the largest remaining connected component. Network interdiction models seek to optimally disrupt network operations. Existing interdictio...

A product-scalable, catalytically mediated flow system has been developed to perform Suzuki-Miyaura reactions under a microwave heating regime, in which the volumetric throughput of a Pd-supported silica monolith can be used to increase the quantity of the product without changing the optimal operating conditions. Two silica monoliths (both 3 cm long), with comparable pore diameters and surface...

An application of remotely detected magnetic resonance imaging is demonstrated for the characterization of flow and the detection of fast, small molecule separations within hypercrosslinked polymer monoliths. The hyper-cross-linked monoliths exhibited excellent ruggedness, with a transit time relative standard deviation of less than 2.1%, even after more than 300 column volumes were pumped thro...

We propose to study the mechanical properties of a volcanic soil sample (monolith) using a computer model. We propose the use of CT-images to construct the Mechanical Computational Model. The image obtained from the CT-Scan give us a 3D model of the pores system of the monolith. This system relates the internal connectivity between different pores and the soil volume. To simulate fluid-solid in...

A nontrivial algebra with at least one at least binary operation is isomorphic to the factor of a subdirectly irreducible algebra through its monolith if and only if the intersection of all its ideals is nonempty.

We report a sulfonyl substituted phenylboronic acid containing monolith capillary that exhibited not only a strong boronate affinity at neutral pH but also secondary separation capability to cis-diol biomolecules.

The use of a centrifugal microfluidic platform is an alternative to classical chromatographic procedures for radiochemistry. An ion-exchange support with respect to the in situ light-addressable process of elaboration is specifically designed to be incorporated as a radiochemical sample preparation module in centrifugal microsystem devices. This paper presents a systematic study of the synthesi...

In this report, to tackle the thermal fluorescent quenching issue of II-VI semiconductor quantum dots (QDs), which hinders their on-chip packaging application to light-emitting diodes (LEDs), a QD-ZnS nanosheet inorganic assembly monolith (QD-ZnS NIAM) is developed through chemisorption of QDs on the surface of two-dimensional (2D) ZnS nanosheets and subsequent assembly of the nanosheets into a...

Light-off of the partial oxidation of methane to synthesis gas on a rhodiumcoated cordierite honeycomb monolith at short contact times is studied experimentally and numerically. The objective of this investigation is a better understanding of transient processes in catalytic oxidation reactors. The numerical simulation predicts the time-dependent solid-temperature distribution of the entire rea...