Electrothermally activated SU-8 microgripper for single cell manipulation in solution
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"Electrothermally activated SU-8 mic..." refers background in this paper
...SU-8 is a highly crosslinked epoxy-type photo-patternable polymer with a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of 52 [21], relatively large elastic modulus ( ) [22], [23], and glass transition temperature above 200 [24]....
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...Pneumatically driven microcages [15], [16], thermally activated polymer-based actuators [17], [18] and electroactive polymer microarms based on ionic absorption and swelling [19], [20], can operate in aqueous solutions but have limited actuation control and are restricted to out of plane motion....
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...Recent studies on the growth of human cells on SU-8 substrates [25] also revealed good biocompatibility, making SU-8 useful in a variety of in-vitro BioMEMS applications [26], [27]....
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...THE development of miniaturized systems for manipulating biological samples in solution has become a great technological challenge for the future of genomics and proteomics [1]....
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