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Discrete elements for 3D microfluidics
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Significance: Microfluidic systems promise to improve the analysis and synthesis of materials, biological or otherwise, by lowering the required volume of fluid samples, offering a tightly controlled fluid-handling environment, and simultaneously integrating various chemical processes. To build these systems, designers depend on microfabrication techniques that restrict them to arranging their designs in two dimensions and completely fabricating their design in a single step. This study introduces modular, reconfigurable components containing fluidic and sensor elements adaptable to many different microfluidic circuits. These elements can be assembled to allow for 3D routing of channels. This assembly approach allows for the application of network analysis techniques like those used in classical electronic circuit design, facilitating the straightforward design of predictable flow systems.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bhargava, K. C., Thompson, B., & Malmstadt, N.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2014-09-22
- Volume
- 111
- Issue
- 42
- Pages
- 15013-15018
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- OpenAlex
- W4246354122
- Cited by
- 298
- References
- 16
- FWCI
- 18.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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