Many liquid–liquid emulsions, including shipboard oily bilgewater (oil-in-water) and water
entrained in diesel fuels (water-in-oil), are chemically stabilized by surfactants and additives …

Abstract Poly (dimethyl siloxane)(PDMS) possesses good mechanical properties, oxygen
permeability and optical transparency, making it an excellent candidate biomaterial …

Polyimide is commonly used as a substrate for flexible electronic devices because of its
excellent thermal, physical, and electrical properties. To enhance the adhesion between …

Pollution flashover is the main factor that affects the safety of the transmission line and
transformation equipment. Generally, anti-pollution flashover coating is considered to be …

Exfoliative cytology is a highly established technique for the diagnosis of tumors. Various
microfluidic devices have been developed to minimize the sample numbers by conjugating …

The main advantage of the microsystems is their ability to imitate in vivo conditions which
are missing in macroscale cell cultures. The materials which find applications in Lab-on-a …

Various materials such as silicon, glass, polymers, and biomaterials find applications in
microfluidic systems for cellomics (Chen et al. 2010; Nieto et al. 2015; Schepers et al. 2016; …

(57) ABSTRACT A method of modifying substrate surface includes: perform ing an O,
plasma treatment on a substrate including poly dimethylsiloxane (PDMS); coating …