1. Highly Sensitive Measurement of Liquid Density in Air Using Suspended Microcapillary Resonators.
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Malvar, Oscar, Ramos, Daniel, Martínez, Carmen, Kosaka, Priscila, Tamayo, Javier, and Calleja, Montserrat
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RESONATORS , *MASS density gradients , *CAPILLARY flow , *LASER beams , *ETHANOL - Abstract
We report the use of commercially available glass microcapillaries as micromechanical resonators for real-time monitoring of the mass density of a liquid that flows through the capillary. The vibration of a suspended region of the microcapillary is optically detected by measuring the forward scattering of a laser beam. The resonance frequency of the liquid filled microcapillary is measured for liquid binary mixtures of ethanol in water, glycerol in water and Triton in ethanol. The method achieves a detection limit in an air environment of 50 µg/mL that is only five times higher than that obtained with state-of-the-art suspended microchannel resonators encapsulated in vacuum. The method opens the door to novel advances for miniaturized total analysis systems based on microcapillaries with the add-on of mechanical transduction for sensing the rheological properties of the analyzed fluids without the need for vacuum encapsulation of the resonators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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