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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"mechanical sensing"”.
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Leveraging Carbon Based Nanoparticle Dispersions for Fracture Toughness Enhancement and Electro-mechanical Sensing in Multifunctional Composites
… the most promising class of nanoparticles. High mechanical strength and stiffness, excellent electrical and thermal conductivity, and high strength to weight ratios are some of the unique abilities of CNTs and GNPs which allow their use in a wide array of applications from aerospace materials to …
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Optical Resonators and Fiber Tapers as Transducers for Detection of Nanoparticles and Bio-Molecules
… several optical, chemical, electrical and mechanical sensing tools. Among these tools, toroidal optical resonators lead the way in detection of the smallest particle/molecule with the real time measurements. In this work, bio-sensing capabilities of toroidal optical resonators are …
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FUNDAMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE OPTO MECHANICAL GYROSCOPE
… waves in a LIGO to the study of the quantum mechanical ground state of a simple harmonic oscillator, opto-mechanics spans a very wide range of the physical world. Optical systems with their capability of high sensitivity have been evaluated for applications as sensors like heart rate …
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CHARACTERIZATION OF SILICON SURFACE MICROMACHINED MEMS DEVICES
… of two oscillating structures to increase its mechanical sensitivity. The first structure is the resonator and the other structure is the sensing structure. Since the primary structure is much more massive compared to the secondary structure, the Coriolis deflection experienced by the primary …
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Mechanical forces and tumor cells: insight into the biophysical aspects of cancer progression
<p>Mechanical forces play an important role in the regulation of cellular behavior and physiological processes including adhesion, migration, proliferation, tissue repair, embryogenesis and development. In addition, a number of diseases including cancer, have been linked to changes in cellular and …
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Automated synthesis of mixed-technology MEMS systems with electronic control
Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) design requires an integration of elements from two or more disparate physical domains: mechanical (translational, rotational, hydraulic), electrical, magnetic, thermal, etc. Different parts of a MEMS system are traditionally designed separately, using …
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Chemomechanics of self-oscillating gels
… tissue exhibit the unique capacity to transduce mechanical stimuli into propagating electrical and chemical signals throughout the body. Few synthetic materials have been engineered to produce communicative chemical signals in response to mechanical input, though such synthetic material analogues …