Poly(dimethylsiloxane) as a material for fabricating microfluidic devices.

By J. C. Mcdonald, George M. Whitesides. Accounts of Chemical Research, 2002

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Microfluidic Production of Multiple Emulsions (2017, background): “The most common devices for microfluidic production of complex droplets and microjets are coaxial assemblies of glass capillaries [55] and planar microfluidic devices [53].”
Characterization of Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) Properties for Biomedical Micro/Nanosystems (2005, background): “281 282 Mata, Fleischman and Roy PDMS is a silicone elastomer with desirable properties that make it attractive for the development of MEMS and microfluidics components for biomedical applications (Jo et al., 2000; Mata et al., 2002b; McDonald and Whitesides, 2002; Unger et al., 2000).”
Optofluidic dye lasers (2008, background): “The laser chip is entirely made of poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS), a silicone elastomer which has become popular for microfluidics[5][98] and nanofabrication[4][99], and has good optical properties in the visible region[100].”
Three-dimensional hydrodynamic focusing in polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microchannels (2004, neutral): “micromolding procedures in PDMS [25], [26].”