Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

An apparatus and a method for producing an object by means of additive manufacturing, the apparatus comprising:—a process chamber arranged for receiving in a build space of the process chamber a bath of material arranged for producing the object;—a ultrasound source element arranged for emitting a beam of focused ultrasound energy in the build space for processing a selective part of the material of the bath of material for producing the object;—a control unit, communicatively coupled to the ultrasound source element, arranged for controlling the ultrasound source element such that a frequency and/or amplitude of the beam of focused ultrasound energy is set at a predetermined frequency and/or predetermined amplitude taking into account a characteristic of material of the bath of material in a focus spot of the beam of focused ultrasound energy and/or such that a frequency and/or an amplitude of the beam of focused ultrasound energy is/are set at a predetermined value, preferably the predetermined frequency and/or the predetermined amplitude, taking into account a focus distance of the beam of focused ultrasound energy.

The present invention relates to a porous material comprising a porous wall structure defining and separating primary pores that are interconnected across its thickness dimension. The primary pores have a diameter greater than 5 μm and less than 1000 μm. The diameter of the primary pores gradually increases across its thickness dimension while their number decreases in its thickness dimension. The porous wall structure comprises or consists of secondary pores that are interconnected throughout the material. The secondary pores have a diameter smaller than 5 μm. The present invention further relates to a method of manufacturing an isolated porous material comprising the steps of: providing a substrate; applying an electrically conductive intermediate layer on at least part of a surface of the substrate; forming a surface layer on the intermediate layer by electrodeposition using dynamic bubble templating; and removing the intermediate layer from the porous surface layer to obtain the isolated porous material; wherein the step of removing the intermediate layer takes place during or after deposition of the porous surface layer. The present invention further relates to a porous material obtainable with a method of manufacturing according to the second aspect. The present invention further relates to the use of a porous material according to the first or third aspect in a chemical or electrochemical system.

The present invention relates to an incubation system for liquid-based incubation of prematurely born infants, comprising: —an inner chamber forming an amniotic basin comprising amniotic fluid, said basin being configured for holding said infant and being made from a flexible material configured for expanding said inner chamber volume in correspondence with the growth of said infant; —an outer chamber enclosing said inner chamber and comprising a temperature regulation fluid, —a fetal connection port, arranged for connecting with the umbilical cord of said infant, said umbilical cord providing a port in said inner chamber to said infant for providing dialyzation and nutrition compounds to said infant via said umbilical cord; —a fetal control unit, connected to said fetal connection port for control of said dialyzation and control of said provided nutrition by monitoring and controlling one or more of a pressure, flow and temperature thereof; an amniotic fluid circulation unit, arranged for connecting with an inlet/outlet port of said inner chamber and comprising a pump for circulating said amniotic fluid from said inner chamber and through a purification system located outside said inner chamber; and —a temperature regulation fluid control unit, arranged for connecting with an inlet/outlet port of said outer chamber and comprising a pump for circulating said temperature regulation fluid from said outer chamber and through a heat exchanger system located outside said inner chamber.

The present invention relates to a haptic system. The present invention also relates to a method for manufacturing a shape memory liquid crystal network. Furthermore, the present invention relates to electronic apparatuses with user input and device output provided with such a haptic system.

An electrochemical cell for converting metal salt or metal oxide to metal comprises: a) a mixture comprising an electrolyte and metal salt or metal oxide; b) an anode submerged in the mixture; c) a cathode partially submerged in the mixture and moveable along a closed loop path; and d) a harvester disposed at an exposed portion of the cathode outside of the mixture, wherein an electrical charge supplied to the electrochemical cell reduces the metal salt or metal oxide to metal at and disposed onto the cathode, and wherein the harvester removes the metal from the exposed portion of the cathode. Methods and systems for converting metal salt or metal oxide to metal are also disclosed including continuous methods and systems.

A fermented milk product, wherein the fermented milk product comprises: a porous protein network; a first, capsular, preferably negatively charged, exopolysaccharide; and a second, non-capsular, preferably neutral, exopolysaccharide. A starter culture comprising a first, preferably negatively charged, capsular, exopolysaccharide producing lactic acid bacterial strain and a second, preferably neutral, non-capsular, exopolysaccharide producing lactic acid bacterial strain, wherein the weight ratio of the weight of the first exopolysaccharide producing lactic acid bacterial strain to the weight of the second exopolysaccharide producing lactic acid bacterial stain in the starter culture lies in the range from equal to or more than 1:1 to equal to or less than 100:1, more preferably in the range from equal to or more than 10:1 to equal to or less than 100:1; and a use thereof and process using such.

An insulated winding assembly comprising an insulated foil conductor comprising a lead-in section, a lead-out section and a winding section between the lead-in and lead-out sections, wherein in the winding section, the insulated foil conductor is wound around a core material to form windings, wherein each of the lead-in and lead-out section is folded with respect to the winding section and arranged transverse to the windings of the winding section, and wherein each of the lead-in and lead-out section comprises at least one folding cut along a lengthwise direction of the foil conductor, thereby forming at least two strips. A corresponding method and a transformer comprising such a winding assembly is also presented herein.

The present invention relates to a bioluminescent biosensor and use of such bioluminescent biosensor for providing a generic biosensor strategy allowing direct detection of biomolecules (e.g. antibodies) or ligands (e.g. small molecules) directly in solution.

A method for characterizing analytes, for example cells, in a sample fluid, is disclosed, the method comprising: passing a sample liquid containing analytes of at least a first type and analytes of a second type along a flow path through a fluid channel; analysing, in a first analysing unit including the fluid channel, the analytes, thereby obtaining first parameter values of at least one analyte characteristic associated with the analytes of the at least first type and second type, altering a further analyte characteristic associated with the analyte of the first type compared to the further analyte characteristic associated with the analyte of the second type; analysing, in a second analysing unit including the fluid channel, the analytes, thereby obtaining second parameter values of the at least one analyte characteristic associated with the analytes of the at least first type and second type; characterizing, in the processing unit, the analytes of the first type from the analytes of the second type by comparing the second parameter values with the first parameter values.

A method and biosensing system for monitoring an analyte by measuring the concentration of the analyte in a measurement chamber including an effective number of binding sites having a binding affinity to the analyte, wherein the measurement chamber has an effective volume in which the analyte has a significant probability to encounter the binding sites, and method includes providing a time-dependent sampling of the analyte, by providing a time-dependent exchange of analyte between a system and the effective volume of the measurement chamber, by performing at least one exchange modulation cycle including the steps: a) facilitating a primary exchange phase having a characteristic time of primary exchange and a duration of primary exchange, b) facilitating a primary-to-secondary switching phase having a characteristic primary-to-secondary switching time and a primary-to-secondary switching duration, and c) facilitating a secondary exchange phase having a characteristic time of secondary exchange and a duration of secondary exchange.