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MICROSYSTEMS
edited by P. A. Besse,
J. Brugger,
M. Gijs,
R. S. Popovic,
Ph. Renaud
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Vol. 29: Loïc Jacot-Descombes MEMS Micro-Capsules for Liquid Encapsulation and Release Konstanz 2013. XIV, 178 p.; € 64,00. ISBN 978-3-86628-481-4 |
Liquid
microencapsulation has shown a high interest at an academic and industrial
level during the past decades as a key technology for drug delivery, fragrance
release or self-healing materials among others. Its compatibility with smart
microsystems fabrication processes is still an issue but may enable very
advanced applications. Self-assembly has shown to be a very promising approach
for parallel assembly of micro components where standard techniques show limitations.
This book
explores some of the key requirements for the development of self-assembling
smart microcapsules able to exchange information with their environment. In a first step, the focus is set on
the fabrication of polymeric half-microcapsules having precisely-controlled
shapes by on photolithography and inkjet printing technology onto silicon
wafers. Various approaches for their face-selective surface treatment are also
demonstrated. Subsequently, their fluid-mediated self-assembly into
two-component complete microcapsules entrapping a functional liquid is
addressed.
About the author:
Loïc Jacot-Descombes was born in
Switzerland in 1983. He studied physics at the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology,
in Lausanne and Zürich and obtained his M.Sc. in 2009. After a master thesis at
the University of California, San Diego involving dynamic light scattering
studies of fluid microdynamics, he joined the
laboratory of microsystems to start his PhD thesis in the group of Prof. J. Brugger. In 2013, he
obtained his PhD degree for his work on the fabrication based on inkjet
printing and photolithography of MEMS microcapsules. These capsules enabled to
encapsulate liquid by fluid-mediated self-assembly and to release it.
Keywords: Liquid micro-encapsulation,
Self-assembly, Inkjet printing, Spherical cap shape control, Self-disassembly,
Controlled release
Mots clés : Micro-encapsulation de liquide, Auto-assemblage, Impression à jet d’encre, Forme de calotte sphérique contrôlée, Auto-désassemblage, Délivrance de médicaments
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