Morgan State University

Birol Ozturk

Peker Milas

Alperen Guver

A method for manufacturing a piezoelectric element for generating electricity upon flexing of the element including the steps spin-coating a first substrate layer onto a support substrate; depositing a first electrode film onto the first substrate layer; spin coating polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) containing solution on the first electrode film to result in a PVDF film; annealing the PVDF film; depositing a second electrode film onto the PVDF film; spin-coating a second substrate layer on top of the second electrode film; forming a hole through the first and second substrate layers; filling the hole with silver paste to contact to the first and second electrode layers; peeling a resulting substrate/electrode/PVDF/electrode/substrate device from the support substrate; and placing a drop of silver paste in the hole formed in the first substrate layer.

Manufacturing of a flexible piezoelectric film-based power source

Disclosed is a method for preparing nanoscale electrodes comprised of electrochemically grown noble metal nanowires, and use of the same for the detection of extremely small concentrations of molecules. Such nanoscale electrodes provide target molecule release information from submicron areas on the cell surface, significantly increasing the spatial resolution of the target molecule mapping of a cell surface to enable localization of target molecules on the cell surface, which can be critical for the detection of certain cells with different properties in a given group of cells, such as circulating tumor cells.

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Parkville, MD, United States of America

Birol Ozturk