National Taiwan University

Academia Sinica

An-Bang Wang

I-Chun Lin

Yi-Hua Wang

Ming-Che Hsieh

Michael Hsiao

Ru-Shi Liu

Fei-Yau Lu

Ming-Hsien Chan

Ming-Chang Hsu

Zhen Bao

Chih-Kung Lee

Ming-Hsun Wu

Shiming Lin

Yu-Ju Liu

Wen-Pin Shih

Chi-Feng Lin

Chih-Chieh Chen

Chuin-Shan Chen

Yi-Kuang Yen

Shih-Chung Chang

Wen-Huei Tsai

Chia-Chih Chu

Subbiramaniyan Kubendhiran

Po-Ting Pan

Yi-Hung Wu

Chia-Fong Lee

Wen-Chin Tsai

Liang-Jenq Leu

Yu-Wen Hsieh

Zdenek Travnicek

Ruey-Hor Yen

Yi-Wei Jiang

Shu-Shen Hsu

Zdenek Trávnícek

Chao-Yuan Liu

Chia-Chih Chen

Disclosed herein is a nanocomposite comprising a core-shell nanoparticle and a core-shell quantum dot. The core-shell nanoparticle comprises a phosphor core, a shell layer, and a cleavable peptide. The core-shell quantum dot comprises a center core, an intermediate layer, an outer layer, a silica layer, and an arginylglycylaspartic acid (RGD) peptide. The core-shell nanoparticle and the core-shell quantum dot are linked to each other via forming a peptide bond between the cleavable peptide and the RGD peptide. Also disclosed are the uses of the nanocomposite in making a diagnosis of tumors.

Nanocomposite and uses thereof

Disclosed herein is a micro-reactor for synthesizing a molecule, for example, compound, a nanoparticle, or a quantum dot. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the apparatus comprises a processor, a storage unit, a reaction unit, a detector, and a collector, in which the storage unit and the reaction unit are independently controlled by the process. Optionally, the present micro-reactor further comprises a diagnostic device for performing a diagnostic test on a biological sample by use of the molecule. Also disclosed wherein are methods of diagnosing and treating a disease in a subject with the aid of the present micro-reactor.

Micro-reactor and method of use

The present invention provides a method for enhancement of the uniform reaction on the porous materials. Comparing with the conventional Western blotting method, the present invention is successfully demonstrated capability on increasing the immune-detection signal intensity and only needs one order of magnitude less of the processing time by applying two orders of magnitude less dosage usage-amount compared to those operated in the conventional method.

Method for enhancement of the uniform reaction on the porous materials

A coating module is suitable to coat a liquid onto a substrate and includes two plates and a diversion structure, in which there is a slot between the plates, and the slot has a slot inlet and a slot outlet, and one of the plates has an injecting port. The diversion structure makes the injecting port communicated with the slot inlet, in which the liquid is configured to enter the diversion structure via the injecting port, and flow to the slot inlet through the diversion structure, then flow into the slot via the slot inlet and then outflows from the slot via the slot outlet to be coated onto the substrate.

Coating module

A membrane micropump includes a vibration chamber, at least one flow guide, at least one fluid inlet, at least one fluid outlet, at least one inlet rectifier, at least one outlet rectifier, a vibration membrane and an actuator. The vibration chamber includes at least one chamber inlet and at least one chamber outlet. The flow guide can be connected to the chamber inlet, the vibration chamber, the chamber outlet or in the vibration chamber, or it can have more pairs to enhance the effects. The inlet rectifier connects the chamber inlet to the fluid inlet. The outlet rectifier connects the chamber outlet to the fluid outlet. The vibration membrane is disposed on the vibration chamber. The actuator is connected to the vibration membrane to reciprocate the vibration membrane, enabling fluid to flow into the vibration chamber via the fluid inlet and flow out thereof via the fluid outlet.

Membrane micropump

A discontinuous capillary coating device is disclosed. A discontinuous capillary coating device. At least one capillary tube is filled with a coating material. At least one coating substrate receives a liquid coating film. At least one capillary tube holder holds the capillary tube, guiding movement of the capillary tube. At least one traversing mechanism drives the capillary tube holder or coating substrate to move.

Capillary coating devices and methods

A device for adjusting a temperature and a humidity using a wind power is provided. The device includes an inlet; an outlet connected to the inlet; a sprayer spraying a nebulized liquid into the device; and an airflow sensor electrically connected to the sprayer for activating the sprayer when an airflow passes through.

Device for adjusting temperature and humidity using wind power

A double-acting device for generating a synthetic jet is provided. The double-acting device includes a chamber having a cavity for a working fluid, a separating element for dividing the chamber into at least two sub-chambers, a control system connected to the chamber for controlling the separating element to act reciprocatingly, an input system connected to the chamber for inputting the working fluid to the chamber therethrough and an output system connected to the chamber for outputting the working fluid from the chamber therethrough. When the working fluid is pushed and pulled by a reciprocating action of the separating element, a train of vortices would be puffed and a non-zero-net-mass-flux fluid is generated through a designed structure and a defined arrangement of the input system and the output system.

Double-acting device for generating synthetic jets

A jet device is provided in the present invention. The jet device includes a chamber having a nozzle and a lateral channel, wherein the lateral channel is disposed along the outer side of a first side of the chamber, the nozzle is disposed at one end of the lateral channel and the chamber is connected with the lateral channel via the nozzle which is connected with the external space, wherein the fluid is filled in the chamber, the nozzle and the later channel and an arc and a block are disposed at the connection of the nozzle and the lateral channel; and a piston disposed at a second side of the chamber.

Jets device

A micro patch coating device includes a coating die with a micro channel structure. A coating fluid is supplied through a coating fluid inlet and an auxiliary fluid is supplied through an auxiliary fluid inlet. After a segment of a predetermined length of the coating fluid is formed at a two-phase fluid output section, the coating fluid flow is intercepted. In turn, a segment of predetermined length of the auxiliary fluid is formed at the two-phase fluid output section, and then the auxiliary fluid flow is intercepted. A two-phase fluid is formed and flows out of the coating die to the substrate to form micro patches thereon.

Micro patch coating device and method

A high-precision vortex flow meter includes a blunt body having a predetermined dimension and being arranged inside a fluid channel to serve as a vortex shedder. The vortex flow meter also includes a temperature detecting device for detecting the vortex shedder temperature and a temperature control element for adjusting the vortex shedder temperature. A frequency measuring device is arranged in the downstream section of the blunt body for detecting the vortex shedding frequency. From the measured temperatures of the upstream fluid flow and that of the blunt body, an effective temperature and a temperature ratio are calculated. The kinematic viscosity of the fluid is looked up from database. By using the relationship between the Strouhal number and Reynolds number, the fluid flow rate is calculated. By employing different blunt body temperature, the measurement range of the flow meter can be broadly extended.

High-precision vortex flow meter

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An-Bang Wang