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Pressure-Driven Micro-Casting for Electrode Fabrication and Its Applications in Wear Grain Detections
The microelectrode is an essential and vital part in microsensors that are largely used in industrial, chemical, and biological applications. To obtain desired microelectrodes in great quality, it is also of great necessity and significance to develop a robust method to fabricate the microelectrode...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6888546/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31717693 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma12223710 |
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author | Cheng, E Xing, Ben Li, Shanshan Yu, Chengzhuang Li, Junwei Wei, Chunyang Cheng, Cheng |
author_facet | Cheng, E Xing, Ben Li, Shanshan Yu, Chengzhuang Li, Junwei Wei, Chunyang Cheng, Cheng |
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description | The microelectrode is an essential and vital part in microsensors that are largely used in industrial, chemical, and biological applications. To obtain desired microelectrodes in great quality, it is also of great necessity and significance to develop a robust method to fabricate the microelectrode pattern. This work developed a four-terminal differential microelectrode that aims at recognizing microparticles in fluids. This microelectrode pair consisted of a high height–width ratio microelectrode array fabricated using a pre-designed microelectrode pattern (a micro-scale channel) and melted liquid metal. The surface treatment of microelectrodes was also investigated to reveal its impacts on the continuality of melting metal and the quality of the fabricated microelectrode patterns. To evaluate the performance of micro-casting fabricated electrodes, a microfluidic device was packaged using a microelectrode layer and a flow layer. Then impedance cytometer experiments were performed using sample fluids with polymer particles in two different sizes in diameter (5 μm and 10 μm). In addition, engine oil was tested on the microelectrodes as complex samples. The number of abrasive particles in the engine oil can be collected from the developed microfluidic device for further analysis. |
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spelling | pubmed-68885462019-12-09 Pressure-Driven Micro-Casting for Electrode Fabrication and Its Applications in Wear Grain Detections Cheng, E Xing, Ben Li, Shanshan Yu, Chengzhuang Li, Junwei Wei, Chunyang Cheng, Cheng Materials (Basel) Technical Note The microelectrode is an essential and vital part in microsensors that are largely used in industrial, chemical, and biological applications. To obtain desired microelectrodes in great quality, it is also of great necessity and significance to develop a robust method to fabricate the microelectrode pattern. This work developed a four-terminal differential microelectrode that aims at recognizing microparticles in fluids. This microelectrode pair consisted of a high height–width ratio microelectrode array fabricated using a pre-designed microelectrode pattern (a micro-scale channel) and melted liquid metal. The surface treatment of microelectrodes was also investigated to reveal its impacts on the continuality of melting metal and the quality of the fabricated microelectrode patterns. To evaluate the performance of micro-casting fabricated electrodes, a microfluidic device was packaged using a microelectrode layer and a flow layer. Then impedance cytometer experiments were performed using sample fluids with polymer particles in two different sizes in diameter (5 μm and 10 μm). In addition, engine oil was tested on the microelectrodes as complex samples. The number of abrasive particles in the engine oil can be collected from the developed microfluidic device for further analysis. MDPI 2019-11-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6888546/ /pubmed/31717693 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma12223710 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Technical Note Cheng, E Xing, Ben Li, Shanshan Yu, Chengzhuang Li, Junwei Wei, Chunyang Cheng, Cheng Pressure-Driven Micro-Casting for Electrode Fabrication and Its Applications in Wear Grain Detections |
title | Pressure-Driven Micro-Casting for Electrode Fabrication and Its Applications in Wear Grain Detections |
title_full | Pressure-Driven Micro-Casting for Electrode Fabrication and Its Applications in Wear Grain Detections |
title_fullStr | Pressure-Driven Micro-Casting for Electrode Fabrication and Its Applications in Wear Grain Detections |
title_full_unstemmed | Pressure-Driven Micro-Casting for Electrode Fabrication and Its Applications in Wear Grain Detections |
title_short | Pressure-Driven Micro-Casting for Electrode Fabrication and Its Applications in Wear Grain Detections |
title_sort | pressure-driven micro-casting for electrode fabrication and its applications in wear grain detections |
topic | Technical Note |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6888546/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31717693 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma12223710 |
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