Polymer microfabrication technologies for microfluidic systems

By H. Becker, C. Gärtner. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 2008

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Point-of-care microfluidic devices for pathogen detection (2018, background): “However, in microfluidic devices, polymeric materials such as polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), photosensitive silicon, poly(methylmethacrylate) (PMMA) (Ionescu-Zanetti et al., 2005; Becker and Gärtner, 2008; Mukhopadhyay, 2007; Duffy et al., 1998) and biopolymers such as calcium alginate (Ertl et al.”
Review of polymer MEMS micromachining (2015, background): “cyclopentanone or GBL, gamma-buryolactone), and up to 5–10% in weight of a photoacid initiator [22, 144], usually triarylsulfonium hexafluoroantimonate [9, 142, 145].”
PDMS-Based Microfluidic Devices for Cell Culture (2018, methodology): “However, to promote the widespread use of microfluidic devices, a faster, less-expensive, and less-specialized method for device fabrication was needed [45].”
Cyclic olefin polymers: emerging materials for lab-on-a-chip applications (2010, background): “Miniaturisation of chemical analysis systems employing microfluidic handling enables rapid and low cost analyses that generate little chemical waste (Becker and Gartner 2008).”
Critical review on biofilm methods (2017, methodology): “Currently, microfluidic devices are fabricated from glass (Iliescu et al., 2012), duro-plastic or thermoplastic materials (Becker & Gartner, 2008), and from the flexible elastomer poly-dimethylsi-loxane (PDMS) (McDonald et al., 2000).”
Porous Polymer Particles - A Comprehensive Guide to Synthesis, Characterization, Functionalization and Applications (2012, background): “Other studies exist in which pure glass [183] or organic polymers [184-186] are used instead of PDMS for the chip”
Bonding of thermoplastic polymer microfluidics (2009, methodology): “These various fabrication methods are well established and summarized in recent review articles (Becker and Gartner 2000, 2008; Becker and Locascio 2002; Rotting et al. 2002; Reyes et al. 2002; Rossier et al. 2002; Chen et al. 2008a).”