Abstract
With the major advances in soft lithography and polymer materials, use of microfluidic devices has attracted tremendous attention recently. A simple and fast micromachining process is highly in demand to prototype such a device efficiently and economically. In this paper, we first reported an out-of-cleanroom printing-based integrated microfabrication process, referred to as the lab-on-a-print (LOP), for rapid-prototyping three-dimensional microfluidics. Using this lab-on-a-print process, we demonstrated the potential to accomplish an entire design-to-fabrication cycle within an hour, including about 70 m resolution of direct-lithography patterning, well-controlled polyimide wet etching, three-dimensional pattern alignment and multilayer wax thermal-fusion packaging. A microfluidic gradient generator was prepared and tested for validation of the lab-on-a-print microfabrication process.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1133-1137 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Lab on a Chip |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2009 |
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- Biochemistry
- Chemistry(all)
- Biomedical Engineering
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Lab-on-a-print : From a single polymer film to three-dimensional integrated microfluidics. / Wang, Wei; Zhao, Siwei; Pan, Tingrui.
In: Lab on a Chip, Vol. 9, No. 8, 01.01.2009, p. 1133-1137.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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