A microfluidic actuator based on thermoresponsive hydrogels

By Marianne E. Harmon, M. Tang, C. Frank. 2003

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Microfluidics: Fluid physics at the nanoliter scale (2005, methodology): “Microfluidic valves have been fabricated from thermoresponsive hydrogels Peters et al., 1997; Harmon et al., 2003; Luo et al., 2003; Richter et al., 2003; Selvaganapathy et al., 2003; Yu et al., 2003 , and are typically Rev. Mod.”
Advances in Mechanics of Soft Materials: A Review of Large Deformation Behavior of Hydrogels (2015, background): “Hydrogels have been shown to be able to function well as flow control devices [Baldi et al., 2002; Harmon et al., 2003; Johnson et al., 2004; Lai et al., 2007; Moore et al., 2000; Satarkar et al., 2009; Sugiura et al., 2007; Wang et al., 2005] in micro systems.”
Review on Hydrogel-based pH Sensors and Microsensors (2008, background): “In fluidics and microfluidics outstanding multi-purpose functionalities have been emerged involving microvalves [16-20], automatic valves [15,16,18, 21-24], pumps [25-27], and chemostat valves performing feedback control to keep an adjustable concentration on a constant level, e.”