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Design, Fabrication, and Testing of a Microforce Sensor for Microinjection

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In this chapter, a novel one-degree-of-freedom (1-DOF) microforce sensor is designed by adopting macrofiber composite (MFC) and polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) films. The films function as fixed-guided beams and construct a multistage compound parallelogram flexure mechanism. The sensor enables the abilities of sensing force and holding cell stably. A prototype is fabricated, tested, and applied in crab egg embryo microinjection. Experiments results reveal the promising performance of the fabricated MFC-based microforce sensor in microinjection application.

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Xu, Q. (2018). Design, Fabrication, and Testing of a Microforce Sensor for Microinjection. In: Micromachines for Biological Micromanipulation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74621-0_3

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