Journal of Micro and Nano: Recent submissions
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Nanofinishing of Microslots on Surgical Stainless Steel by Abrasive Flow Finishing Process: Experimentation and Modeling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Miniaturization of components is one of the major demands of the today's technological advancement. Microslots are one of the widely used microfeature found in various industries such as automobile, aerospace, fuel cells ... -
A Free Interface Component Mode Synthesis Approach for Determining the Micro-End Mill Dynamics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)The prediction accuracy of the stability boundary in the machining process depends upon accurate estimation of cutting tool-tip dynamics. Note that the experimental modal analysis using direct impact at miniature end mill ... -
Investigation of Cellular Confinement in Three-Dimensional Microscale Fibrous Substrates: Fabrication and Metrology
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Engineered microenvironments along with robust quantitative models of cell shape metrology that can decouple the effect of various well-defined cues on a stem cell's phenotypic response would serve as an illuminating tool ... -
A Comprehensive Study of the Sintering of Copper Nanoparticles Using Femtosecond, Nanosecond, and Continuous Wave Lasers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)A high electrical and thermal conductivity coupled with low costs make copper (Cu) an enticing alternative to aluminum for the fabrication of interconnects in packaging applications. To tap into the benefits of the ... -
Response of High-Pressure Micro Water Jets to Static and Dynamic Nonuniform Electric Fields
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)The manipulation of the trajectory of high-pressure micro water jets has the potential to greatly improve the accuracy of water jet related manufacturing processes. An experimental study was conducted to understand the ... -
Special Section on Micro- and Nano-Additive Manufacturing—Part 2
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Laser Surface Engineering of Hierarchy Hydroxyapatite Aerogel for Bone Tissue Engineering
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Bioceramics with porous microstructure has attracted intense attention in tissue engineering due to tissue growth facilitation in the human body. In the present work, a novel manufacturing process for producing hydroxyapatite ... -
Fast Fabrication of Superhydrophobic Titanium Alloy as Antibacterial Surface Using Nanosecond Laser Texturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)The method for fast fabrication of superhydrophobic surfaces was proposed to resist the formation of biofilm of Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) for orthopedic and dental implants. Laser ... -
Effect of Dielectric Conductivity on Micro-Electrical Discharge Machining Plasma Characteristics Using Optical Emission Spectroscopy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Electrical conductivity of the dielectric liquid has been shown to play main role in discharge initiation and electrical breakdown as revealed by several modeling and experimental studies on electrical discharges in liquids. ... -
Investigations on Flexural Fatigue Strength of Conductor Paths Fabricated by LPKF-LDS® Technology
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Reliability aspects are crucial for the success of every technology in industrial application. Regarding interconnect devices, several methods are applied to evaluate reliability of conductor paths like accelerated ... -
Deposition of Variable Bead Diameter Arrays by Self-Focusing Electrohydrodynamic Jets
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Electrohydrodynamic (EHD) processes were used for direct writing of bead arrays with controllable bead sizes. Experiments were conducted to align layers of bead-on-string structures in an effort to create three-dimensional ... -
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 ...