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Anisotropic Polyvinyl Alcohol Phantom Fabrication for Ultrasound Elastography: Procedure and Quality Controls
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2026
This protocol describes a robust, reproducible method for fabricating anisotropic polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) phantoms—essential tools for validating ultrasound elastography techniques targeting mechanically anisotropic soft tissues (e.g., skeletal muscle).
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Fabricating Nanogaps by Nanoskiving
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2013
The fabrication of electrically addressable, high-aspect-ratio (> 1000:1) metal nanowires separated by gaps of single nanometers using either sacrificial layers of aluminum and silver or self-assembled monolayers as templates is described. These nanogap structures are fabricated without a clean room or any photo- or electron-beam lithographic processes by a form of edge lithography known as nanoskiving.
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Fabrication of Amperometric Electrodes
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2009
This protocol describes how to generate carbon fiber electrodes. The electrodes are subsequently used to detect catecholamine release from vesicles with carbon fiber amperometry.
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Fabricating Cotton Analytical Devices
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2016
To investigate simple fabrication approaches for multiple assay needs, we created a fluid-absorbing channel system made of cotton material. This device was used to establish a multiple detection platform, and solve contamination issues that commonly affect lateral flow-based biomedical devices, for clinical urinalysis of nitrite, total protein, and urobilinogen.
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Fabrication and Characterization of Superconducting Resonators
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2016
Superconducting microwave resonators are of interest for detection of light, quantum computing applications and materials characterization. This work presents a detailed procedure for fabrication and characterization of superconducting microwave resonator scattering parameters.
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Repeated cooling and thawing promotes formation of a durable PVA hydrogel network, allowing a shaped material to retain its structure during aqueous use. The cycle-based route provides physical stabilization, whereas chemical crosslinking offers an alternative stabilization strategy. Researchers can therefore select the route while tuning the resulting material for films, fibers, porous scaffolds, or other engineered forms.
Polymer concentration, processing conditions, and crosslinking determine how much the material swells, how strong it becomes, how porous its structure is, and how it degrades. These variables are design controls. Adjusting them allows researchers to tailor a PVA construct toward the requirements of tissue engineering, drug delivery, or biomimetic model systems.
Porosity is a particularly important design outcome because it distinguishes a film or fiber from a porous scaffold. In PVA fabrication, shaping and stabilization conditions can be adjusted alongside polymer concentration and crosslinking to control this structural feature. The resulting variation lets researchers prepare materials with different physical architectures rather than a single standardized format.
A typical workflow begins by dissolving PVA in water, followed by shaping through casting, molding, or a related approach. The formed material is then stabilized using repeated freeze-thaw cycles or chemical crosslinking. Researchers can vary polymer concentration and processing conditions during this sequence, producing a construct whose strength, swelling, porosity, and degradation behavior match the intended bioengineering use.
The process supports several physical formats, including films, fibers, porous scaffolds, and injectable or implantable structures. This range is useful because the same polymer platform can be adapted to different bioengineering configurations. Format selection connects the fabrication workflow to the intended role, whether the goal is a tissue-engineering construct, a drug-delivery material, or a biomimetic model system.
PVA-based materials are used as engineered platforms for tissue engineering, drug delivery, and biomimetic model systems. Their usefulness comes from the ability to adjust mechanical properties and aqueous-processable formulations through polymer concentration, processing conditions, and stabilization choices. Those controls let researchers investigate or build materials with different swelling, strength, porosity, and degradation profiles.