Multi-directional micro-switching valve chip with rotary mechanism

Experimental approach to the laser machining of PMMA substrates for the fabrication of microfluidic devices

“…The first group includes all the techniques of adding material layer by layer using various approaches such as selective laser sintering of polymeric powders [1] or stereolithography of liquid thermoset resins [2].…”

Projection Microstereolithography as a Micro-Additive Manufacturing Technology: Processes, Materials, and Applications

“…Monneret et al 99 developed fluidic microchambers with the complex shapes of a well, channel, and walls that were put inside a system to control the contact of beads and living cells. Hasegawa et al 213 designed and fabricated a multidirectional microswitching valve chip for an air-pressure-driven microdispenser system. Snowden et al 214 produced small-scale microfluidic components for an electrochemical flow detector.…”

Microfluidic networks: Design and simulation of pure hydrodynamic switching and medium access control

“…Tel. : made to define a framework, including hardware and software features, for realizing programmable microfluidic systems able to execute a large number of different elementary analyses within a single device [6][7][8][9]4]. A number of problems have prevented this very ambitious goal to be reached; however recently the introduction of an emerging approach denoted as droplet-based microfluidics [3,10], first, and the introduction of the innovative concept of bubble logic [2] later, have shown that the design of microfluidic networks aimed at supporting flexible, low-cost and scalable programmable microfluidic systems is feasible.…”