Jessica Melin directs the Stanford Microfluidics Foundry, a resource open to the scientific community that fabricates polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microfluidics chips based on the principle of ...

2 This design integrated these microvalves onto a bilayer PDMS microfluidic chip. Liquid flowed through the bottom channel ... It opened his eyes to the digital manufacturing of microfluidic devices. ...

A new modified silicone rubber for cancer-on-chip applications improves cell adhesion and drug testing, paving the way for ...

T he fabrication facility contains a 3" contact mask alignment and photoresist exposure system, fume hoods, spin coating station, non-contact wafer profilometer, PDMS mixer ... plastic chips and ...

Image Credit: Microsystems & Nanoengineering Droplet-based microfluidic systems have applications in protein engineering, single-cell sequencing, and nanoparticle synthesis. However, conventional ...

The achievement was published in Nature Communications on May 19, 2022. （DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29956-4） Microfluidic devices are chip-type platforms with functionality provided by microfluidic ...

A research team from Boston University reported the development of a droplet microfluidic ... conventional fabrication methods, such as those using polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), are costly and ...

However, the traditional methods of fabricating microfluidic devices—typically using PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane ... and accessible fabrication method to help propel innovation in microfluidic ...