Emilia Oleandro

TL;DR: An innovative skin-over-liquid system made of a periodic array of highly compliant microbumps actuated through an electrode-free electrohydrodynamic (EHD) pressure is proposed, demonstrated to be highly repeatable and capable of swelling and deflating easily under a simple thermal stimulation driven by the pyroelectric effect, thus providing a challenging platform that can be actively controlled at the microscale.

TL;DR: This work presents a 3D printed, cost effective and field portable off-axis holographic microscope based on the concept of holographic microfluidic slide, removing complexity from the reconstruction process, as phase retrieval is non iterative and obtainable by hologram demodulation.

TL;DR: This work reports a voltage-free pyro-electrification (PE) process able to induce a permanent dipole orientation into polymer sheets under both mono- and bipolar distribution and shows the reliability of the technique for different polymers and for different applications ranging from live cell patterning to biofilm formation tests for bacteria linked to food-processing environments.

TL;DR: The results show that the p-jet is extremely promising for overcoming the current detection limits of collagen-based products in human fluids, performing 10 times better than the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and thus paving the way for the early diagnosis of related chronic diseases.

TL;DR: In this paper, a pyroelectrodynamic jet (p-jet) was used to concentrate the lactose molecules onto a solid amine support for easy and rapid detection through a fluorescence measurement.