By Sang-Joon John Lee, Narayan Sundararajan
Delivering a definitive resource of information in regards to the ideas, fabrics, and strategy thoughts utilized in the fabrication of microfluidic structures and units, this useful quantity is a necessary reference for newcomers and working towards execs within the box. This specified booklet focuses not just at the fabrication points, but additionally covers the fundamental objective, advantages, and boundaries of the fabricated constructions as they're utilized to microfluidic sensor and actuator features. Practitioners locate assistance on quickly assessing ideas and tradeoffs for the choice of fabrication tools with numerous tabulated examples from the sector. greater than a hundred illustrations aid and make clear key ideas during the publication.
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145–172. [98] Whitesides, G. , “The Origins and the Future of Microfluidics,” Nature, Vol. 442, No. 7101, 2006, pp. 368–373. 2 Geometric Features Engineered functions are enabled by devices with appropriate combinations of geometric features and material properties. Microfluidic devices furthermore often take advantage of scaling phenomena, as introduced in Chapter 1. This chapter focuses on geometric features and surveys a wide variety of geometric features that have been fabricated in microfluidics research and development.
Capillary tubing with constant annular cross-section also deserves mention in the discussion of microchannels. Capillary tubing in materials such as fused silica and polyetheretherketone (PEEK) are commercially available with inner diameter as small as a few tens of microns. 10 Electrospray tip with channel filled by a pillar array (a) and close-up of pillars (b). (Reprinted from [18]. ) devices tends to be very indirect compared to integration of microchannels fabricated in planar substrates. 11 [19].
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