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

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

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 ...

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

Soft lithography and 3D printing are two nanofabrication techniques, each offering advantages for microfluidics and ...

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

Microfluidics is an interdisciplinary field that combines principles from physics, chemistry, and engineering to create devices that can process and analyze minuscule volumes of liquids. Often, ...

Years ago, prototyping microfluidic systems was a long, time-intensive task. With inspiration from DIY PCB fabrication techniques, that time is now greatly reduced. However, even with the ...

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 thermopress for manufacturing plastic chips and several micro-CNC mills, including a 60,000 RPM 4-axis mill with micron precision for manufacturing molds and manifolds for the microfluidic devices.