UW Mechanical engineers lead a DOE funded effort to develop cookstoves that are 10 times cleaner for the developing world. read more about this.
Congratulations to Jeffrey Moran for defending this thesis and completing all requirements for his PhD. Jeff also gave a speech on importance of communicating scientific work at the Mechanical Engineering Graduation ceremony on behalf of the graduate students. We are are proud of you Dr. Moran!
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Jonathan Posner co-chairs 2013 Gordon Research Conference in Physics & Chemistry of Microfluidics
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Spherical catalytic micromotors fabricated as described in Wheat et al. [Langmuir 26, 13052 (2010)] show fuel concentration dependent translational and rotational velocity. The motors possess short-time and long-time diffusivities that scale with the translational and rotational velocity with respect to fuel concentration. The short-time diffusivities are two to three orders of magnitude larger than the… Read more »
In this work, we introduce a simple solvent-assisted micromolding technique for the fabrication of high-fidelity styrene-ethylene/butylene-styrene (SEBS) microfluidic devices with high polystyrene (PS) content (42 wt% PS, SEBS42). SEBS triblock copolymers are styrenic thermoplastic elastomers that exhibit both glassy thermoplastic and elastomeric properties resulting from their respective hard PS and rubbery ethylene/butylene segments. The PS… Read more »