Fondazione Istituto Italiano Di Tecnologia

UniversitÁ Degli Studi Di Genova

Calmed S.r.l.

Francesco De Angelis

Enzo Di Fabrizio

Michele Dipalo

Giovanni Cuda

Andrea Barbaglia

Francesco Tantussi

Francesco Gentile

Federico Mecarini

Remo Proietti Zaccaria

Subrahmanyam Goriparti

Ermanno Miele

Andrea Jacassi

Joao Cunha

Rajeshkumar Mupparapu

Leopold Summerer

Claudio Capiglia

A microfluidic device may include: electrically conductive lower portions; electrically conductive first upper portions that are configured to receive an electrical signal; shielding portions opaque to an incident optical beam, wherein the shielding portions are between the lower portions and first upper portions, and wherein the shielding portions include through openings; and compartment(s) containing filler and markers dispersed in the filler. Each compartment may include lower chamber(s) and upper chamber(s) in fluid communication with each other via the through openings. Each lower chamber may extend between a respective through opening and the lower portions. Each upper chamber may extend between at least one respective through opening and the first upper portions. The markers may be configured to move between the upper chambers and the lower chambers in variable amounts, and may be configured to emit an optical emission beam when illuminated by the incident optical beam.

Microfluidic devices and methods for using the devices

Methods are provided for obtaining hollow nano-structures which include the steps of providing a suspended film starting layer on a support substrate, depositing on the starting layer a sacrificial layer, performing, in progressive sequence, a complete erosion phase of said support substrate and starting layer and performing an at least partial erosion phase of the sacrificial layer previously deposited on the starting layer so as to obtain holes passing through the starting layer and passing or non passing through the sacrificial layer, depositing, on the side of the support substrate opposite to that where the starting layer is put, at least one covering layer arranged to internally cover the holes created by the progressive erosion. Hollow nano-structures formed by such methods are also provided.

Methods for obtaining hollow nano-structures

Concentrator and locator device () of a solute comprising a substrate () and a plurality of prismatic lithographic micro-structures () orthogonally emerging from the substrate (). The microstructures () are spaced from one another in a periodical manner so as to make such a substrate () super-hydrophobic.

Concentrator and locator device of a solute and method for concentrating and locating a solute

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Francesco De Angelis