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ArticleMicromachines2020

Compliant Nano-Pliers as a Biomedical Tool at the Nanoscale: Design, Simulation and Fabrication.

Alessio Buzzin, Serena Cupo, Ennio Giovine, Giampiero de Cesare, Nicola Pio Belfiore

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Article in Micromachines, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Alessio BuzzinDepartment of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Rome La Sapienza, 00184 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8071-5406
Serena CupoDepartment of Engineering, University of Roma Tre, 00146 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8986-1450
Ennio GiovineInstitute of Photonics and Nanotechnologies, IFN-CNR, 00156 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5264-7082
Giampiero de CesareDepartment of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Rome La Sapienza, 00184 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9935-2975
Nicola Pio BelfioreDepartment of Engineering, University of Roma Tre, 00146 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5390-2831

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper presents the development of a multi-hinge, multi-DoF (Degrees of Freedom) nanogripper actuated by means of rotary comb drives and equipped with CSFH (Conjugate Surface Flexure Hinges), with the goal of performing complex in-plane movements at the nanoscale. The design approach, the simulation and a specifically conceived single-mask fabrication process are described in detail and the achieved results are illustrated by SEM images. The first prototype presents a total overall area of (550 × 550) μm2, an active clamping area of (2 × 4) μm2, 600 nm-wide circular curved beams as flexible hinges for its motion and an aspect ratio of about 2.5. These features allow the proposed system to grasp objects a few hundred nanometers in size.

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amorphous siliconconjugate surfaces flexure hingefour-bar linkageLab-on-ChipMEMSnanogripperNEMSrotary comb drive

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PMID33302376
PMCPMC7762596

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