3D printed molds for non-planar PDMS microfluidic channels

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 226, Issue , 2015, Pages 137-142

  Hwang, Yongha ^a   Paydar, Omeed H ^a   Candler, Robert N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA NANOSYSTEMS INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbitrary microchannel geometry; Microfluidics; Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS); Three dimensionally (3D) printing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; FLUIDIC DEVICES; GEOMETRY; LITHOGRAPHY; MICROCHANNELS; MICROFLUIDICS; MOLDS; SILICONES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CHANNEL CROSS SECTION; CHANNEL DIAMETERS; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROCHANNEL GEOMETRIES; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE POLYMERS; PRINTED STRUCTURES;

3D PRINTERS;

EID: 84924984183     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2015.02.028     Document Type: Article

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