Advances in microfluidic devices made from thermoplastics used in cell biology and analyses

E Gencturk, S Mutlu, KO Ulgen - Biomicrofluidics, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Silicon and glass were the main fabrication materials of microfluidic devices, however,
plastics are on the rise in the past few years. Thermoplastic materials have recently been …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in thermoplastic microfluidic bonding

K Giri, CW Tsao - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Microfluidics is a multidisciplinary technology with applications in various fields, such as
biomedical, energy, chemicals and environment. Thermoplastic is one of the most prominent …

[HTML][HTML] Xurography as a tool for fabrication of microfluidic devices

S Shahriari, V Patel… - … of Micromechanics and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Microfluidic devices have been conventionally fabricated using traditional photolithography
or through the use of soft lithography both of which require multiple complicated steps and a …

[HTML][HTML] Fast prototyping microfluidics: integrating droplet digital lamp for absolute quantification of cancer biomarkers

B Oliveira, B Veigas, AR Fernandes, H Águas… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Microfluidic (MF) advancements have been leveraged toward the development of state-of-
the-art platforms for molecular diagnostics, where isothermal amplification schemes allow for …

Machining technologies and structural models of microfluidic devices

P Gou, S Meng, H Yan, J Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In the past decades, microfluidic chips have been one of the hottest research topics in the
“lab-on-a-chip” field. However, it is still a challenge for design the perfect microchannels with …

High‐Resolution 3D Printing of Dual‐Curing Thiol‐Ene/Epoxy System for Fabrication of Microfluidic Devices for Bioassays

D Böcherer, Y Li, C Rein… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The customized processing of polymer materials in the microscale by high‐resolution 3D
printing provides an easy access to advanced applications in the fields of optics …

[HTML][HTML] A new criterion of coalescence-induced microbubble detachment in three-dimensional microfluidic channel

R Chen, S Zhou, L Zhu, L Zhu, W Yan, H Yu - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
This work is motivated by an experiment of microbubble transport in a polymer microfluidic
gas generation device where coalescence-induced detachment exhibits. We numerically …

Universal and Versatile Magnetic Connectors for Microfluidic Devices

M Alvarez-Amador, A Salimov, E Brouzes - Micromachines, 2024 - mdpi.com
World-to-chip interfacing remains a critical issue for microfluidic devices. Current solutions to
connect tubing to rigid microfluidic chips remain expensive, laborious, or require specialized …

Study on coalescence dynamics of unequal-sized microbubbles captive on solid substrate

S Zhou, Y Cao, R Chen, T Sun, K Fezzaa, H Yu… - … Thermal and Fluid …, 2018 - Elsevier
The dynamics of bubble coalescence are of importance for a number of industrial processes,
in which the size inequality of the parent bubbles plays a significant role in mass transport …

Rapid prototyping of shrinkable BOPS-based microfluidic devices

Y Fan, H Wang, S Liu, J Liu, K Gao, Y Zhang - Microfluidics and …, 2018 - Springer
Biaxially oriented polystyrene (BOPS) is a commercialized packaging material, which has
the advantages of biocompatibility, non-toxic, transparency, light-weight and cost-effective …