{"title":"Lagrangian Magnetic Particle Tracking Through Stenosed Artery Under Pulsatile Flow Condition","authors":"Sayan Bose, A. Datta, R. Ganguly, M. Banerjee","doi":"10.1115/1.4026839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4026839","url":null,"abstract":"Drug delivery technologies are an important area within biomedicine. Targeted drug delivery aims to reduce the undesired side effects of drug usage by directing or capturing the active agents near a desired site within the body. This is particularly beneficial in, for instance, cancer chemotherapy, where the side effects of general (systemic) drug administration can be severe. Herein, a numerical investigation of unsteady magnetic drug targeting (MDT) using functionalized magnetic microspheres in partly occluded blood vessels is presented considering the effects of particle-fluid coupling on the transport and capture of the magnetic particles. An Eulerian–Lagrangian technique is adopted to resolve the hemodynamic flow and the motion of the magnetic particles in the flow using ansys fluent. An implantable cylindrical permanent magnet insert is used to create the requisite magnetic field. Targeted transport of the magnetic particles in a partly occluded vessel differs distinctly from the same in a regular unblocked vessel. Parametric investigation is conducted and the influence of the flow Re, magnetic insert diameter, and its radial and axial position on the “targeting efficiency” is reported. Analysis shows that there exists an optimum regime of operating parameters for which deposition of the drug-carrying magnetic particles in a predesignated target zone on the partly occluded vessel wall can be maximized. The results provide useful design bases for in vitro set up for the investigation of MDT in stenosed blood vessels.","PeriodicalId":73845,"journal":{"name":"Journal of nanotechnology in engineering and medicine","volume":"4 1","pages":"031006"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1115/1.4026839","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63484116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Patrick L. Jurney, Rachit Agarwal, Vikramjit Singh, K. Roy, S. Sreenivasan, Li Shi
{"title":"Size-Dependent Nanoparticle Margination and Adhesion Propensity in a Microchannel","authors":"Patrick L. Jurney, Rachit Agarwal, Vikramjit Singh, K. Roy, S. Sreenivasan, Li Shi","doi":"10.1115/1.4025609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4025609","url":null,"abstract":"Intravenous injection of nanoparticles as drug delivery vehicles is a common practice in clinical trials of therapeutic agents to target specific cancerous or pathogenic sites. The vascular flow dynamics of nanocarriers (NCs) in human microcapillaries play an impor- tant role in the ultimate efficacy of this drug delivery method. This article reports an experimental study of the effect of nanoparticle size on their margination and adhesion propensity in microfluidic channels of a half-elliptical cross section. Spherical polysty- rene particles ranging in diameter from 60 to 970nm were flown in the microchannels and individual particles adhered to either the top or bottom wall of the channel were imaged using fluorescence microscopy. When the number concentration of particles in the flow was kept constant, the percentage of nanoparticles adhered to the top wall increased with decreasing diameter (d), with the number of particles adhered to the top wall following a d (cid:2) 3 trend. When the volume concentration of particles in solution was kept constant, no discernible trend was found. This experimental finding is explained by the competition between the Brownian force promoting margination and repulsive parti-cle–particle electrostatic forces retarding adhesion to the wall. The 970 nm particles were found to adhere to the bottom wall much more than to the top wall for each of the","PeriodicalId":73845,"journal":{"name":"Journal of nanotechnology in engineering and medicine","volume":"4 1","pages":"031002"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1115/1.4025609","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63481289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gen-3 Thermal Management Technology: Role of Microchannels and Nanostructures in an Embedded Cooling Paradigm","authors":"A. Bar-Cohen","doi":"10.1115/1.4023898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4023898","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73845,"journal":{"name":"Journal of nanotechnology in engineering and medicine","volume":"4 1","pages":"020907"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1115/1.4023898","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63478421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wireless Underground Sensor Networks: System in Support of Future Agriculture","authors":"M. Vuran, Xin Dong, K. Preston","doi":"10.1115/1.4024767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4024767","url":null,"abstract":"World population growth results in a grand challenge to develop new and more sustainable agricultural methods. Wireless underground sensor networks (WUSN) are an example of how nano and microsensors may be used in the future to monitor and optimize agricultural production. This short communication examines the recent advancements toward the realization of wireless underground sensor networks and a few key challenges that can be addressed by the improvements in nanotechnology.","PeriodicalId":73845,"journal":{"name":"Journal of nanotechnology in engineering and medicine","volume":"132 1","pages":"020906"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1115/1.4024767","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63480024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Farahbod, S. Farahmand, M. Fard, Mohammad Nikkhahi
{"title":"Finding of Optimum Effective Parameters on Sweetening of Methane Gas by Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles","authors":"F. Farahbod, S. Farahmand, M. Fard, Mohammad Nikkhahi","doi":"10.1115/1.4025467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4025467","url":null,"abstract":"Nanocatalysts are adapted in this research to remove H 2 S as the toxic, corrosive, and pyrophoric contaminant. The important feature which is considered is to enhance the adsorption efficiency of hydrogen sulfide from hydrocarbon fuels such as methane gas by applying the zinc oxide nanocatalyst. In general, the optimum conditions to eliminate the hydrogen sulfide from methane gas are evaluated in this paper, experimentally. In this study, zinc oxide nanoparticles are synthesized and are contacted with flow of sour methane. The synthesized nanoparticles are characterized by SEM. The process performance of H 2 S removal from methane gas on zinc oxide nanoparticles is illustrated by the ratio of outlet concentration per feed concentration. The effects of operating conditions such as operating temperature, pressure, the occupied volume of bed, the amount of H 2 S concentration in feed stream, feed superficial velocity, size of nanocatalyst, and the bed height are studied in this paper. Also, the cost estimations are presented for different operating pressures and temperatures. This work studies the adsorption of H 2 S from natural gas with an emphasis on the influence of the operating parameters on process efficiency and cost evaluation. Finally, results introduce the amount of pressure 15 atm, temperature 300 °C, bed height 70 cm, and 35 nm in diameter nano zinc oxide as the optimum properties. Therefore, the amount of C/C 0 is decreased to 0.022. In addition, this is confirmed that the increase in the feed concentration of H 2 S and feed superficial velocity, also the decrease in the diameter of zinc oxide catalyst enhances the process efficiency.","PeriodicalId":73845,"journal":{"name":"Journal of nanotechnology in engineering and medicine","volume":"4 1","pages":"021003"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1115/1.4025467","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63480869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Viscosity and Friction Factor of Aluminum Oxide–Water Nanofluid Flow in Circular Tubes","authors":"Clement C. Tang, S. Tiwari, Matthew W. Cox","doi":"10.1115/1.4025540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4025540","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73845,"journal":{"name":"Journal of nanotechnology in engineering and medicine","volume":"4 1","pages":"021004"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1115/1.4025540","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63481238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aytug Gencoglu, D. Olney, Alexandra Lalonde, Karuna S. Koppula, B. Lapizco-Encinas
{"title":"Particle Manipulation in Insulator Based Dielectrophoretic Devices","authors":"Aytug Gencoglu, D. Olney, Alexandra Lalonde, Karuna S. Koppula, B. Lapizco-Encinas","doi":"10.1115/1.4025368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4025368","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73845,"journal":{"name":"Journal of nanotechnology in engineering and medicine","volume":"4 1","pages":"021002"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1115/1.4025368","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63481112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Micro and Nanofluidics: Historical Perspectives and Challenges","authors":"A. Conlisk","doi":"10.1115/1.4025463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4025463","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73845,"journal":{"name":"Journal of nanotechnology in engineering and medicine","volume":"30 1","pages":"020908"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1115/1.4025463","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63480827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fabrication of Centimeter Long, Ultra-Low Aspect Ratio Nanochannel Networks in Borosilicate Glass Substrates","authors":"M. Pinti, Tanuja Kambham, Bowen Wang, S. Prakash","doi":"10.1115/1.4025366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4025366","url":null,"abstract":"Nanofluidic devices have a broad range of applications resulting from the dominance of surface-fluid interactions. Examples include molecular gating, sample preconcentration, and sample injection. Manipulation of small fluid samples is ideal for micro total analysis systems or lab on chip devices which perform multiple unit operations on a single chip. In this paper, fabrication procedures for two different ultra-low aspect ratio (ULAR) channel network designs are presented. The ULAR provides increased throughput compared to higher aspect ratio features with the same critical dimensions. Channel network designs allow for integration between microscale and nanoscale fluidic networks. A modified calcium assisted glass–glass bonding procedure was developed to fabricate chemically uniform, all glass nanochannels. A polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)-glass adhesive bonding procedure was also developed as adhesive bonding allows for more robust fabrication with lower sensitivity to surface defects. The fabrication schemes presented allow for a broad array of available parameters for facile selection of device fabrication techniques depending on desired applications for lab on chip devices.","PeriodicalId":73845,"journal":{"name":"Journal of nanotechnology in engineering and medicine","volume":"4 1","pages":"020905"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1115/1.4025366","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63481105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}