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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 24, 2017
Applicant:

The Trustees of Columbia University IN the City of New York, New York, NY (US);

Inventors:

Yuan Jia, New York, NY (US);

Zhixing Zhang, New York, NY (US);

Qiao Lin, New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 25/00 (2006.01); G01N 25/48 (2006.01); G01N 25/20 (2006.01); G01K 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 25/482 (2013.01); G01K 17/006 (2013.01); G01N 25/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

A MEMS-based calorimeter includes a reference channel, a sample channel, and a thermopile configured to measure a temperature differential between the reference channel and a sample channel. The reference channel and the sample channel each include a passive mixer such as a splitting-and-recombination micromixer. The passive mixer can be formed by a first set of channels in a first layer and a second set of channels in a second layer. Methods for fabricating the MEMS-based calorimeter and methods of using the calorimeter to measure thermodynamic properties of chemical reactions are also provided.


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