Microfluidics for Biologists Fundamentals and Applications

Endmills are common tools that remove material from a substrate material. Essentially this is a cutting process powered by high- ...

Depending on the application various tool types are commercially available, for instance the woodruffer cutter that can create u ...

(355 nm), results in better quality PMMA channels [ 15 ]. Most organic materials show an intense absorbtion in the ultraviolate ...

ether-ether-ketone) is possible, and the resulting structure has been implemented for embossing PMMA, PC and PS and COC. However ...

Based on these formulas and the relation between the material density (ρ), the channel depth (D), channel width (W) and laser sp ...

incubated at temperature that exceeds the evaporation temperature of the solvent. This allows the extra solvent to evaporate fro ...

chamber should be stable at 500 mTorr for a successful process. The substrates are placed inside the chamber exposing the bindin ...

microchannels at near-infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths. Int J Adv Man Tech 67 (5–8):1651–1654 Romoli L, Tantussi G, Dini G ...

Chapter 4 3D Printed Microfluidic Devices Gregory W. Bishop 1 Introduction Recently, increasing interest has developed around th ...

2 3D Printing Techniques 3D printing offers fast design-to-object workflow and typically requires few, relatively simple steps. ...

of viscoelastic inks are tailored to facilitate extrusion through syringes with diam- eters as small as 1μm[ 9 ]. 2.2 Methods Ba ...

Like SLA, MultiJet and PolyJet technologies also employ photocurable mate- rials. However, these methods rely on inkjet printing ...

a few hundred micrometers. Therefore, many 3D-printed “microfluidic” devices described in recent literature are given this disti ...

3.2 Fluidic Devices Prepared by Direct Printing Direct fabrication of 3D-printed fluidic devices has also been demonstrated. Cha ...

microfluidic components that can be reversibly connected to construct customiz- able fluidics [ 18 , 19 ]. Channels can also be ...

(ATP) transported from the channel. Erythrocytes stored in the modified AS-1 exhibited greater ATP production than those stored ...

5 Outlook and Prospects Growing interest in 3D printing techniques and improvements in technological capabilities and materials ...

Muth JT, Vogt DM, Truby RL, Mengüc ̧ Y, Kolesky DB, Wood RJ, Lewis JA (2014) Embedded 3D printing of strain sensors within high ...

Chen C, Wang Y, Lockwood SY, Spence DM (2014) 3D-printed fluidic devices enable quantitative evaluation of blood components in ...

Chapter 5 The Centrifugal Microfluidic: Lab-on-a-Disc Platform Brian Henderson, David J. Kinahan, and Jens Ducre ́e 1 Introducti ...