A preparation method of a bionic adhesive material with a tip-expanded microstructural array includes the following steps: machining through-holes on a metal sheet; modifying morphology of a through-hole by electroplating, using the metal sheet in step 1 as an electroplating cathode, and arranging the electroplating cathode and an electroplating anode in parallel to prepare a hyperboloid-like through-hole array assembly, fitting a lower surface of the hyperboloid-like through-hole array assembly tightly to an upper surface of a substrate assembly to prepare a through-hole assembly of a mold; and filling the mold assembly with a polymer, curing, and demolding to obtain the adhesive material with the tip-expanded microstructural array.

Process for manufacturing a hybrid timepiece component, wherein the following steps are comprised: comprising structuring at least one wafer (14) of a first micromachinable material so as to form at least one through-opening (15) within the wafer (14), said structured wafer (14) being intended to form a first part (4) of the hybrid timepiece; component and depositing a metal by electroforming, so that the metal extends through the through-opening (15) and over the two upper and lower faces of the wafer (14) as a single piece resulting from one and the same electroforming step, the electroformed metal being intended to form a second part (8) of the hybrid timepiece component.

A method is disclosed for fabricating free-standing polymeric nanopillars or nanotubes with remarkably high aspect ratios. The nanopillars and nanotubes may be used, for example, in integrated microfluidic systems for rapid, automated, high-capacity analysis or separation of complex protein mixtures or their enzyme digest products. One embodiment, preferably fabricated entirely from polymer substrates, comprises a cell lysis unit; a solid-phase extraction unit with free-standing, polymeric nanostructures; a multi-dimensional electrophoretic separation unit with high peak capacity; a solid-phase nanoreactor for the proteolytic digestion of isolated proteins; and a chromatographic unit for the separation of peptide fragments from the digestion of proteins. The nanopillars and nanotubes may also be used to increase surface area for reaction with a solid phase, for example, with immobilized enzymes or other catalysts within a microchannel, or as a solid support for capillary electrochromatography-based separations of proteins or peptides.

A wearable glove for interacting with virtual objects is described herein. An example wearable glove includes a fabric material to be worn on a user's hand. The wearable glove also includes a matrix made of an elastic polymer, the matrix including a plurality of voids, each respective void (i) including at least one fluidic actuator and (ii) not being fluidically coupled with a positionally adjacent void. The wearable glove additionally includes a non-fluidic actuator configured to restrict movement of one of the user's digits; and one or more position sensors for monitoring positional data used to a determine a position of the wearable glove within a three-dimensional space. The wearable device can control the at least one fluidic actuator and the at least one non-fluidic actuator to simulate real-world interactions in the artificial-reality environment based on the position of the wearable device as compared to respective positions of virtual objects.

A manufacturing method capable of manufacturing a laminate including a substrate having a recess and a film with a high yield is provided. The method of manufacturing a laminate of the present invention includes: preparing a substrate having a recess; disposing a film on the substrate so as to cover the recess; and obtaining a laminate by thermocompression bonding between the film and the substrate by pressing the film and the substrate with a first elastic body and a second elastic body in a state in which the substrate on which the film is disposed is disposed between the first elastic body and the second elastic body such that the film is on the first elastic body side, in which the first elastic body is harder than the second elastic body.

Disclosed in the present disclosure is a manufacturing method for a 3D microelectrode. The manufacturing method includes the following steps: (1) manufacturing a 3D model of a 3D microelectrode; (2) pouring a flexible material into the 3D model, and performing demolding so as to form a flexible mold having a cavity, wherein the cavity of the flexible mold can be fitted to the 3D model; (3) performing silanization treatment on the flexible mold, then pouring a flexible material into the surface of the flexible mold having the cavity, and performing demolding so as to form a flexible 3D microelectrode substrate; and (4) manufacturing a conductive layer on the flexible 3D microelectrode substrate so as to form the 3D microelectrode. In the present disclosure, a 3D microelectrode having an ultrahigh microcolumn height can be manufactured by using a 3D printing technology and a two-time mold-reversing method.

A wearable glove for interacting with virtual objects is described herein. An example wearable glove includes a fabric material to be worn on a user's hand. The wearable glove also includes a matrix made of an elastic polymer, the matrix including a plurality of voids, each respective void (i) including at least one fluidic actuator and (ii) not being fluidically coupled with a positionally adjacent void. The wearable glove additionally includes a non-fluidic actuator configured to restrict movement of one of the user's digits; and one or more position sensors for monitoring positional data used to a determine a position of the wearable glove within a three-dimensional space. The wearable device can control the at least one fluidic actuator and the at least one non-fluidic actuator to simulate real-world interactions in the artificial-reality environment based on the position of the wearable device as compared to respective positions of virtual objects.

Method of manufacturing a micromechanical component intended to cooperate with another micromechanical component, the method comprising the steps of providing a substrate, forming a mould on said substrate, said mould defining sidewalls arranged to delimit said micromechanical component, providing particles on at least said sidewalls, depositing a metal in said mould so as to form said micromechanical component, and liberating said micromechanical component from said mould and removing said particles.

An example digital microfluidics device includes a device body having a primary substrate defining a planar primary substrate surface; a plurality of droplet processing components having respective component substrates overmolded in the primary substrate in a coplanar arrangement with the primary substrate surface; and an electrical interface carried on the primary substrate surface, the electrical interface defining a planar droplet manipulation surface and carrying a set of droplet manipulation electrodes adjacent to the droplet manipulation surface; the electrical interface configured to interconnect the droplet manipulation electrodes and at least a portion of the droplet processing components.

In one example, an electronic device can comprise (a) a first substrate comprising a first encapsulant extending from the first substrate bottom side to the first substrate top side, and a first substrate interconnect extending from the substrate bottom side to the substrate top side and coated by the first encapsulant, (b) a first electronic component embedded in the first substrate and comprising a first component sidewall coated by the first encapsulant, (c) a second electronic component coupled to the first substrate top side, (d) a first internal interconnect coupling the second electronic component to the first substrate interconnect, and (e) a cover structure on the first substrate and covering the second component sidewall and the first internal interconnect. Other examples and related methods are also disclosed herein.