Deposition of micron liquid droplets on wall in impinging turbulent air jet by Liu, Tianshu, Nink, Jacob, Merati, Parviz, Tian, Tian, Li, Yong, Shieh, Tom

“…The fluid mechanics of the deposition of micron liquid (olive oil) droplets on a glass wall in an impinging turbulent air jet is studied experimentally. …”
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Color from hierarchy: Diverse optical properties of micron-sized spherical colloidal assemblies by Vogel, Nicolas, Utech, Stefanie, England, Grant T., Shirman, Tanya, Phillips, Katherine R., Koay, Natalie, Burgess, Ian B., Kolle, Mathias, Weitz, David A., Aizenberg, Joanna

“…Colloidal crystallization in an emulsion droplet creates micron-sized superstructures, termed photonic balls. …”
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Mechanical Characterization and Shape Optimization of Fascicle-Like 3D Skeletal Muscle Tissues Contracted with Electrical and Optical Stimuli by Neal, Devin M., Sakar, Mahmut Selman, Chan, Vincent, Bashir, Rashid, Asada, Harry

“…Using our tissue construct method we found an optimal initial diameter of 500 microns outperformed tissues using 250 microns by more than 60% and tissues using 760 microns by 105%. …”
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A Research Factory for Polymer Microdevices: muFac by Hardt, David E., Anthony, Brian, Hale, Melinda Rae, Zarrouati, Nadege

“…As part of our research on the manufacturing science of micron scale polymer-based devices, an automated production cell has been developed to explore its use in a volume manufacturing environment. …”
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Burning structures and propagation mechanisms of nanothermites by Kim, Suyong, Johns, Averitt A, Wen, John Z, Deng, Sili

“…In this work, a high-speed microscopy imaging system was used to reveal the burning structure of Al/CuO nanothermites and to investigate the propagation mechanism of its flame front at micron and sub-millimeter scales which have not been studied. …”
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A novel white-light scanning interferometer for absolute nano-scale gap thickness measurement by Xu, Zhiguang, Youcef-Toumi, Kamal, Yoon, Soon Fatt

“…It possesses a large measurement range of from several hundreds of nanometers to tens of microns as well as a high resolution of 0.1 nm, but does not employ any expensive equipment like spectrometer or monochromator. …”
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Kinematic couplings: A review of design principles and applications by Slocum, Alexander H.

“…From the humble three-legged milking stool to a SEMI standard wafer pod location to numerous sub-micron fixturing applications in instruments and machines, exactly constrained mechanisms provide precision, robustness, and certainty of location and design. …”
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Rheo-chemistry of gelation in aiyu (fig) jelly by Wang, Fan-Wei, Geri, Michela, Chen, Yun-Ju, Huang, Jung-Ren, McKinley, Gareth H, Chen, Yeng-Long

“…Close inspection of high resolution cryo-SEM images taken at different times during the gelation process showed that the gels initially form nano-fiber networks with mesh sizes on the order of tens of microns and the stiffer mature gels observed at longer times develop sub-micron mesh sizes. …”
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Roll-to-Roll Microcontact Printing of Flexible Aluminum Substrates Using Octadecylphosphonic Acid (ODPA) by AlQahtani, Hussain, Merian, Christopher, Du, Xian, Hardt, David E

“…Soft-lithography, or the printing of self-assembling molecular inks at micro or sub-micron scale holds the promise of large-scale surface patterning for a variety of applications. …”
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White-light scanning interferometer for absolute nano-scale gap thickness measurement by Xu, Zhiguang, Youcef-toumi, Kamal, Yoon, Soon Fatt, Shilpiekandula, Vijay, 1979-

“…It covers a large measurement range of from approximate contact to tens of microns with a high resolution of 0.1 nm. Detailed analytical models are presented and signal-processing algorithms based on convolution and correlation techniques are developed. …”
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Self-similarity of contact line depinning from textured surfaces by Paxson, Adam T., Varanasi, Kripa K.

“…Here we describe a technique for measuring the dynamic behaviour of the three-phase contact line at micron length scales using environmental scanning electron microscopy. …”
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Separating Oil-Water Nanoemulsions using Flux-Enhanced Hierarchical Membranes by Solomon, Brian Richmond, Hyder, Md Nasim, Varanasi, Kripa K.

“…Separation of nanoemulsions, i.e. oil-water mixtures containing sub-micron droplets, still remains a key challenge. Tradeoffs between geometric constraints, high breakthrough pressure for selectivity, high flux, and mechanical durability make it challenging to design effective membranes. …”
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A high throughput approach for analysis of cell nuclear deformability at single cell level by Ermis, Menekse, Chen, Pu, Demirci, Utkan, Hasirci, Vasif, Akkaynak Yellin, Derya

“…Here, we used soft lithography techniques to produce 3 dimensional (3-D) cell culture substrates decorated with micron sized pillar structures of variable aspect ratios and dimensions to induce changes in cellular and nuclear morphology. …”
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Quasi-Ballistic Heat Transfer From Metal Nanostructures on Sapphire by Minnich, Austin Jerome, Chen, Gang

“…To circumvent this limit, we study heat transfer from metallic dot arrays with sub-micron diameters on sapphire fabricated using electron beam lithography. …”
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Thermally conductive separator with hierarchical nano/microstructures for improving thermal management of batteries by Yang, Yuan, Huang, Xiaopeng, Cao, Zeyuan, Chen, Gang

“…Modeling has been performed to understand mechanism behind the enhancement of thermal conductivity, which suggests that addition of nanoparticles significantly reduces thickness of polymer coating on micron-sized Al₂O₃ particles and thus increase the thermal conductivity of the composite separator. …”
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Adjoint-based deviational Monte Carlo methods for phonon transport calculations by Peraud, Jean-Philippe Michel, Hadjiconstantinou, Nicolas

“…We show that the proposed adjoint-based methods are particularly well suited to problems involving a wide range of length scales (e.g., nanometers to hundreds of microns) and lead to computational methods that can calculate quantities of interest with a cost that is independent of the system characteristic length scale, thus removing the traditional stiffness of kinetic descriptions. …”
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Preparation of superhydrophobic and self-cleaning polysulfone non-wovens by electrospinning: influence of process parameters on morphology and hydrophobicity by Al-Qadhi, M., Merah, N., Matin, A., Abu-Dheir, N., Khaled, M., Youcef-Toumi, Kamal

“…Porosity measurements of different chemistries show an average pore size in the range 3–8 microns. The thickness of PSf mats was variable, from as low as 10 μm to as high as 70 μm.…”
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Direct fabrication of graphene on SiO[subscript 2] enabled by thin film stress engineering by McNerny, Daniel Q., Viswanath, B., Copic, Davor, Laye, Fabrice R., Brieland-Shoultz, Anna C., Polsen, Erik S., Veerasamy, Vijayen S., Prohoda, Christophor George, Dee, Nicholas Thomas, Hart, Anastasios John

“…In this study the graphene on SiO[subscript 2] comprises micron-scale domains, ranging from monolayer to multilayer. …”
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Focusing of phase change microparticles for local heat transfer enhancement in laminar flows by Yilbas, Bekir S., Lenert, Andrej, Nam, Young Suk, Wang, Evelyn

“…To achieve further heat transfer enhancement, this paper investigates the effect of focusing micron-sized phase-change particles (PCMs) to a layer near the heated wall of a parallel plate channel. …”
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Multimaterial 4D Printing with Tailorable Shape Memory Polymers by Sakhaei, Amir Hosein, Lee, Howon, Dunn, Conner K., Dunn, Martin L., Ge, Qi, Fang, Xuanlai

“…We present a new 4D printing approach that can create high resolution (up to a few microns), multimaterial shape memory polymer (SMP) architectures. …”
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