Three-dimensional micro-channel fabrication in polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) elastomer

By B. Jo, Linda M. Van Lerberghe, K. Motsegood, D. Beebe. Journal of microelectromechanical systems, 2000

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• Equilibrium swelling and kinetics of pH-responsive hydrogels: models, experiments, and simulations (2002, methodology): “The mold was generated by employing the sandwich molding process previously reported in [32].”
• Thermal aging and reduced hydrophobic recovery of polydimethylsiloxane (2006, background): “However, he thermodynamically unstable hydrophilic surface regains ts hydrophobicity in less than an hour [1], as a result of low olecular weight (LMW) chains diffusing to the surface 2,3].”
• A passive planar micromixer with obstructions for mixing at low Reynolds numbers (2007, background): “[27, 28]), fabrication is time consuming and yields remain low.”
• A polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) deformable diffraction grating for monitoring of local pressure in microfluidic devices (2002, methodology): “Another research group used methanol for this purpose in the case of PDMS–PDMS bonding [ 18 ], but water worked better in our case.”
• Direct, one-step molding of 3D-printed structures for convenient fabrication of truly 3D PDMS microfluidic chips (2015, methodology): “(Jo et al. 2000).”
• Extended PDMS stiffness range for flexible systems (2015, neutral): “Although the first organosilicon was first synthesized over one hundred years ago [1], it is only in the last 20 years that polymeric organosilicon compounds - such as polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) - have found applications in areas such as flexible electronics [2, 3, 4, 5, 6], moulding and soft litho”
• Fabrication of microchannels: A review (2015, methodology): “The microchannels having sizes of 150–300mm have been etched for fabricating microfluidic systems.(27) Manifold design of PDMS has been used for microfluidic valves having width of 5mm and depth of 3mm.”