Viscosity of Water in Nano-Confinement

Since the early 1970s there is a notion that water near polar or charged surfaces is somehow ordered or structured, leading to a so called structural component of the disjoining pressure

Nanochannel fabrication and characterization using bond micromachining

This thesis deals with the fabrication and characterization of nanochannels (channels with at least one dimension in the sub-100 nm range). These channels are important for various areas of research, including DNA analysis systems and chemical sensors. In addition, the behavior of liquids in nano-confinement is of interest for many of the applications. The technologies currently used to fabricate\ud nanochannels are often expensive and/or time consuming or simply not accurate enough. This creates a need for controlled, yet simple fabrication technologies

Fabrication and capillary filling of sub-10nm nanochannels

Keywords: Nanochannels, capillarity, viscosit

Micro coriolis flow sensor

Keywords: Coriolis flow sensor, surface channel technolog

Capillarity effect in silicon based nanochannels

Using silicon based micromachining we have developed different techniques to create 1D and 2D confined nanochannels, with a characteristic diameter down to 5 nm. A short introduction to these techniques will be given. Capillary action in channels of this small size is a strong effect

Optimizing electricity distribution using two-stage integer recourse models

We consider two planning problems faced by an electricity distributor. Electricity can be ob-tained both from power plants and small generators such as hospitals and greenhouses, whereas the future demand for electricity is uncertain. The price of electricity obtained from the power plants depends on quota that are to be determined in a yearly contract, whereas the (given) contracts with small generators contain various constraints on switching them on or off.