News & Press Releases
PRIME @ BNN Quarterly (Dec 2023)
PRIME was featured in the latest issue of the BNN QUARTERLY (December 2023), our “Digital Magazine for Developments in Sustainable Technology” with an article titled "PRIME project Delivers Advanced Fabrication Technology Platform for Microfluidic Devices" (page...
Two PRIME talks at ILCEC in Boulder
From 8-11 October, two PRIME partners presented their results at the the International Liquid Crystal Elastomer Conference, in Boulder, Colorado. PRIME coordinator Carlos Sanchez Somolinos (CSIC) presented "Enabling Functionality and Miniaturization in Soft Robotic...
European Researchers’ Night 2023
BNN Brings Nanomaterials to the Public at European Researchers’ Night 2023 On Friday, 29 September 2023 BNN joined researchers across Europe for simultaneous public science events in dozens of European cities. In Graz we joined European Researchers’ Night 2023 at...
PRIME @ BNN Quarterly (Sept 2023)
PRIME was featured in the latest BNN QUARTERLY issue on "Biofunctionalization" in September 2023 with the article "PRIME: Bringing Light to Microfluidics" (pages 35-39) Download QUARTERLY & enjoy reading!
Microfluidics in their PRIME brings consortium to Vienna
On 14 September 2023, PRIME held its final dissemination event, “Microfluidics in their PRIME: Microfluidic Chips, Active Valves, Smart Sensors, and What Comes Next” at TUtheSky in Vienna, where the consortium presented their results alongside others in the field of...
PRIME featured in HTS Botenstoff Microfluidics
In June 2023, PRIME was featured in the Microfluidics special issue of the Botenstoff, the digital magazine of Human.technology Styria GmbH. Human.technology Styria is a cluster of roughly 140 organizations and businesses located in the Austrian provice of Styria...
Modelling: Interview with Carl Modes (MPI)
What is the status? We have a working computational model framework that accurately captures spontaneous-strain-driven shape change in the nematic actuators and continue to use it to explore and optimize design ideas. What have you achieved so far? We have found...
PRIME Final Dissemination Event @BNN QUARTERLY (June 2023)
PRIME was featured in the latest issue of the BNN QUARTERLY in June 2023 with an announcement of the PRIME Final Dissemination Event "Microfluidics in their PRIME: Integrated Chips, Active Valves, Smart Sensors, and What Comes Next" on 14 September 2023 in Vienna....
Final Dissemination Event in Vienna on 14 Sept 2023
We are pleased to announce the final dissemination event of the PRIME project, titled Microfluidics in their PRIME: Microfluidic Chips, Active Valves, Smart Sensors, and What Comes Next. It takes place in Vienna, Austria on the campus of the Technical University of...
Microfluidics: Interview with Ignacio Ochoa (Universidad de Zaragoza)
What is the status? We currently have a working valve actuated by light and we are working in the miniaturization and also trying to increase the speed of our valve. What have you achieved so far? We have successfully coupled the LCE actuators to a preliminary design...