Reconfigurable microfluidic device with discretized sidewall.

Masahiro Oono, Keisuke Yamaguchi, Amirul Rasyid, Atsushi Takano, Masato Tanaka, Nobuyuki Futai

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Article in Biomicrofluidics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

Reconfigurable Microfluidic Channel with Pin-discretized Sidewalls.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2018
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6 authors.

Masahiro OonoDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering and Science, Shibaura Institute of Technology, 3-7-5 Toyosu, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-8548, Japan.

Keisuke YamaguchiDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology, 3-7-5 Toyosu, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-8548, Japan.

Amirul RasyidDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology, 3-7-5 Toyosu, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-8548, Japan.

Atsushi TakanoDigital Manufacturing and Design Centre, Singapore University of Technology and Design, 8 Somapah Rd, Singapore 487372.

Masato TanakaDepartment of Materials and Life Sciences, School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Denki University, Ishizaka, Hatoyama-machi, Hiki-gun, Saitama 350-0394, Japan.

Nobuyuki FutaiORCID 0000-0001-9341-7304

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Various microfluidic features, such as traps, have been used to manipulate flows, cells, and other particles within microfluidic systems. However, these features often become undesirable in subsequent steps requiring different fluidic configurations. To meet the changing needs of various microfluidic configurations, we developed a reconfigurable microfluidic channel with movable sidewalls using mechanically discretized sidewalls of laterally aligned rectangular pins. The user can deform the channel sidewall at any time after fabrication by sliding the pins. We confirmed that the flow resistance of the straight microchannel could be reversibly adjusted in the range of 10

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PMID28503247

DOI10.1063/1.4983148

PMCPMC5415406

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