Split and flow: reconfigurable capillary connection for digital microfluidic devicesElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available. See DOI: 10.1039/c4lc00650j

Supplying liquid to droplet-based microfluidic microsystems remains a delicate task facing the problems of coupling continuous to digital or macro- to microfluidic systems. Here, we take advantage of superhydrophobic microgrids to address this problem. Insertion of a capillary tube inside a microgri...

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Main Authors Lapierre, Florian, Harnois, Maxime, Coffinier, Yannick, Boukherroub, Rabah, Thomy, Vincent
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 11.08.2014
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Summary:Supplying liquid to droplet-based microfluidic microsystems remains a delicate task facing the problems of coupling continuous to digital or macro- to microfluidic systems. Here, we take advantage of superhydrophobic microgrids to address this problem. Insertion of a capillary tube inside a microgrid aperture leads to a simple and reconfigurable droplet generation setup. How to take advantage of superhydrophobic microgrids to address the problem of coupling continuous to digital microfluidic systems? A reconfigurable capillary connection for digital microfluidic devices is presented.
Bibliography:10.1039/c4lc00650j
Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available. See DOI
ISSN:1473-0197
1473-0189
DOI:10.1039/c4lc00650j