I. D. Johnston

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report an investigation of the variation in the mechanical properties of bulk polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) elastomers with curing temperature, over the range 25 ◦ C to 200 ¼ C, over a range up to 40% strain and hardness of 44−54 ShA.

TL;DR: A novel instrument to study the microrheology of erythrocytes as they flow through channels of dimensions similar to human blood capillaries, employing an array of microfluidic flow channels to integrate a number of different but precise and highly reproducible channel sizes and geometries within one array.

TL;DR: The fully-integrated portable platform described in this paper is highly compatible with the next generation of electrowetting-coupled air samplers and thus shows strong potential toward future in-field deployable biodetection systems and could have key implication in life-changing sectors such as healthcare, environment or food security.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate focusing, separation and concentration of particles with closely spaced diameters of 2.1 and 3.2 μm, significantly smaller than previously reported as separated in Dean flow devices, and conclude that flow separation specificity can be fine-tuned by adjustment of output pressure differentials, improving separation of closely spaced particle sizes.

TL;DR: The antimicrobial efficacies and the intrinsic properties of different metallic nanoparticles, their potential mechanisms of action against certain types of harmful pathogens and how these properties may be utilised in biomedical and healthcare products with the aim to reduce cross contaminations, disease transmissions and usage of antibiotics are reviewed.