Journal of Micro and Nano: Recent submissions
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A Quantification of Jet Speed and Nanofiber Deposition Rate in Near-Field Electrospinning Through Novel Image Processing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Electrospinning, one of the most effective ways of producing nanofibers, has been applied in as many fields throughout its long history. Starting with far-field electrospinning (FFES) and advancing to the near-field, the ... -
Correlation Between Microscale Magnetic Particle Distribution and Magnetic-Field-Responsive Performance of Three-Dimensional Printed Composites
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)To date, several additive manufacturing (AM) technologies have been developed for fabricating smart particle–polymer composites. Those techniques can control particle distributions to achieve gradient or heterogeneous ... -
Opto-Thermophoretic Tweezers and Assembly
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Opto-thermophoretic manipulation is an emerging field, which exploits the thermophoretic migration of particles and colloidal species under a light-controlled temperature gradient field. The entropically favorable photon–phonon ... -
Fabrication of TiO2 Thin Film-Based Fresnel Zone Plates by Nanosecond Laser Direct Writing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Fresnel zone plates (FZPs) have been gaining a significant attention by industry due to their compact design and light weight. Different fabrication methods have been reported and used for their manufacture but they are ... -
A Molecular Dynamics Study of PDMS Stamp-Based Graphene Exfoliation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are used to gain insights into the process conditions that cause separation of graphene layers from a highly ordered pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) source in a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) ... -
Erratum: “Tribological Properties of Textured Cemented Carbide Surfaces of Different Wettability Produced by Pulse Laser” [ASME J. Micro Nano-Manuf., 2018, 6(2), p. 021001; DOI: 10.1115/1.4038629]
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Three-Dimensional Compatible Sacrificial Nanoimprint Lithography for Tuning the Wettability of Thermoplastic Materials
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)We report the tuning of surface wetting through sacrificial nanoimprint lithography (SNIL). In this process, grown ZnO nanomaterials are transferred by imprint into a metallic glass (MG) and an elastomeric material, and ... -
Tribological Properties of Textured Cemented Carbide Surfaces of Different Wettability Produced by Pulse Laser
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)The micro/nanotextured cemented carbide surface of different wettability was produced by laser scanning and fluorinated treatment. The tribological properties of the untextured, oleophobic and oleophilic micro/nanotextured ... -
Scalable Manufacturing of AgCu40(wt %)–WC Nanocomposite Microwires
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Nanoparticle reinforced metals recently emerge as a new class of materials to empower the functionality of metallic materials. There is a remarkable success in self-incorporation of nanoparticles to bulk metals for ... -
Electrohydrodynamic Printing for Advanced Micro/Nanomanufacturing: Current Progresses, Opportunities, and Challenges
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)The paper provides an overview of high-resolution electrohydrodynamic (EHD) printing processes for general applications in high-precision micro/nanoscale fabrication and manufacturing. Compared with other printing approaches, ... -
Editorial
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Electrohydrodynamic Casting Bismuth Telluride Microparticle-Loaded Carbon Nanofiber Composite Material With Multiple Sensing Functions
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Nanoparticle Sintering Model: Simulation and Calibration Against Experimental Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)One of the limitations of commercially available metal additive manufacturing (AM) processes is the minimum feature size most processes can achieve. A proposed solution to bridge this gap is microscale selective laser ... -
Fabrication and Wettability Analysis of Hydrophobic Stainless Steel Surfaces With Microscale Structures From Nanosecond Laser Machining
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)In this work, nanosecond laser machining is used to fabricate hydrophobic 17-4 PH stainless steel surfaces with microscale and submicron structures. Four surface structures were designed, with microscale channels and pillars ... -
Graphene Growth on and Transfer From Platinum Thin Films
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)This paper presents graphene growth on Pt thin films deposited with four different adhesion layers: Ti, Cr, Ta, and Ni. During the graphene growth at 1000 °C using conventional chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method, these ... -
Model-Based Coarse-Fine Virtual Calibration and Visual Servo for Augmented Reality-Assisted Peg-in-Hole Microassembly
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)A three-dimensional (3D)-virtual calibration and visual servo are implemented for augmented reality (AR)-assisted peg-in-hole microassembly operations. By employing 3D model and ray casting, the 3D coordinates on virtual ... -
Investigations for Enhancing Wear Properties of Rapid Tooling by Reinforcement of Nanoscale Fillers for Grinding Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)In this work, investigations were made for enhancing wear properties of rapid tooling (RT) by reinforcement of fillers (nanoscaled) for grinding applications. The RT has been prepared by using biocompatible composite ... -
Fabrication of Micro Diamond-Like Carbon-Nozzles by Plasma Oxidation Printing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)The plasma oxidation printing (POP) was proposed as a digital manufacturing to shape the diamond-like carbon (DLC) thick film into a micronozzle on the tool steel substrate. Its head shape was first designed by computer-aided ... -
Output-Only Modal Analysis of Micromilling Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)An output-only modal analysis (OMA) approach is presented to obtain the direct frequency response function (FRF) at the tip of the tool in micromilling setups. White noise input is provided using acoustic excitation and ... -
Low Pressure Phase Transformations During High-Speed, High-Temperature Scratching of Silicon
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Higher temperature assisted processing of silicon, such as heat-assisted diamond turning, is often being considered to improve surface integrity. At higher temperatures and under mechanical loading and unloading, caused ...