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  • Coupling capillary-driven microfluidics with lateral flow immunoassay for signal enhancement 

    Azizian, Pooya; Casals Terré, Jasmina; Guerrero-SanVicente, Elena; Grinyte, Ruta; Ricart Campos, Jordi; Cabot, Joan Marc (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2023-08-01)
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    Microfluidics has emerged as a versatile technology that is applied to enhance the performance of analytical techniques, among others. Pursuing this, we present a capillary-driven microfluidic device that improves the ...
  • Impact of printing orientation on inter and intra-layer bonds in 3D printed thermoplastic elastomers: A study using acoustic emission and tensile tests 

    Adrover Monserrat, Bàrbara; García Vilana, Silvia; Sánchez Molina, David; Llumà Fuentes, Jordi; Jerez Mesa, Ramón; Martínez González, Eva; Travieso Rodriguez, Jose Antonio (Elsevier, 2023-09-22)
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    The use of the Material Extrusion technique with Thermoplastic Elastomers is currently growing because of the large number of benefits of this family of materials. They are processable materials with high flexibility, which ...
  • Aerodynamic study of MotoGP motorcycle flow redirectors 

    González Arcos, Borja; Gámez Montero, Pedro Javier (2023-06-01)
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    In recent years, the introduction of aerodynamic appendages and the study of their aero- dynamic performance in MotoGP motorcycles has increased exponentially. It was in 2016, with the introduction of the single electronic ...
  • On-demand inkjet printed hydrophilic coatings for flow control in 3D-printed microfluidic devices embedded with organic electrochemical transistors 

    Makhinia, Anatolii; Azizian, Pooya; Beni, Valerio; Cabot, Joan Marc; Casals Terré, Jasmina; Ersman, Peter Andersson (John Wiley & sons, 2023-07)
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    Microfluidic surface chemistry can enable control of capillary-driven flow without the need for bulky external instrumentation. A novel pondered nonhomogeneous coating defines regions with different wetting properties on ...
  • Flow control, active and passive applications 

    Bergadà Granyó, Josep Maria; Bugeda Castelltort, Gabriel (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2023-08-14)
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    The Boundary Layer (BL) dynamic performance greatly affects the forces acting on any Bluff body. Ideally, the boundary layer should be attached to the surface but when separation occurs, the vortical structures and the ...
  • Helical static mixer simulations for its integration in the pour plate method: mixing agar and a nutrient solution 

    Diaz Font, Ana M.; Terrones Fernández, Inés; Gámez Montero, Pedro Javier; Castilla López, Roberto (2023-08-05)
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    In microbiology laboratories, it is essential to obtain high-quality samples where the culture media are completely homogeneous. The pour plate method includes having to melt the culture media—a mixture of agar and a ...
  • Square cavity flow driven by two mutually facing sliding walls 

    An, Bo; Bergadà Granyó, Josep Maria; Sang, Weimin; Li, Dong; Mellibovsky Elstein, Fernando (2023-07)
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    We investigate the flow inside a 2D square cavity driven by the motion of two mutually facing walls independently sliding at different speeds. The exploration, which employs the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM), extends on ...
  • Energy harvester based on low cost piezoelectric membrane for road traffic application 

    Bernat Masó, Ernest; Martínez Martínez, Borja; Mercedes Cedeño, Luis Enrique; Mendizábal Dinucci, Virginia Dolores (Springer Nature, 2023-01-01)
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    Piezoelectric harvesters are environmentally sustainable alternative electrical production technologies aimed at supplying small autonomous devices. The particular application in roads has significant potential. However, ...
  • Modified algorithms for curved and virtual boundaries in Lattice Boltzmann method applications based on tree grid 

    An, Bo; Bergadà Granyó, Josep Maria; Li, D; Sang, WM (2023-09)
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    Boundary treatment algorithms, for the curved boundaries and tree grid virtual ones employed in lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) related applications, are very important to numerical performance. In order to make them ...
  • Capillary-driven microfluidics: impacts of 3D manufacturing on bioanalytical devices 

    Azizian, Pooya; Casals Terré, Jasmina; Ricart Campos, Jordi; Cabot, Joan Marc (Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2023-01-01)
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    Over decades, decentralized diagnostics continues to move towards rapid and cost-effective testing at the point-of-care (POC). Although microfluidics has become a key enabling technology for POC testing, the need for robust ...
  • Experimental testing and structural analysis of composite tile - reinforced concrete domes 

    López López, David; Bernat Masó, Ernest; Saloustros, Savvas; Gil Espert, Lluís; Roca Fabregat, Pedro (Elsevier, 2023-06-27)
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    Conventional formworks for concrete curved shells either are expensive, complex and wasteful or have formal restrictions. Using tile vaults (also known as timbrel, Guastavino, thin-tile or Catalan vaults) as stay-in-place ...
  • A physical-chemical study of water resources in 5 hydropower projects 

    Naranjo Silva, Héctor Sebastián; Punina Guerrero, Diego; Barros Enriquez, José David; Almeida Domínguez, Jorge Armando; Álvarez del Castillo, Javier (Brazilian Journals Publicações de Periódicos e Editora Ltda, 2022-11-14)
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    Over the last 60 years, renewable energies have substantially developed; in 2021, around 12.8% of global primary energy came from these technologies. Thus, even though renewable energies have good global acceptance present ...

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