ArticleBiomicrofluidics2018
Fabrication of truly 3D microfluidic channel using 3D-printed soluble mold.
Article in Biomicrofluidics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- The Additive Manufacturing Approach to Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) Microfluidic Devices: Review and Future Directions.Polymers · 2023Review
- Wireless Inchworm-like Compact Soft Robot by Induction Heating of Magnetic Composite.Micromachines · 2023Article
- Patient-specific brain arteries molded as a flexible phantom model using 3D printed water-soluble resin.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Low-cost and cleanroom-free prototyping of microfluidic and electrochemical biosensors: Techniques in fabrication and bioconjugation.Biomicrofluidics · 2021Review
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- Thrombus Imaging Using 3D Printed Middle Cerebral Artery Model and Preclinical Imaging Techniques: Application to Thrombus Targeting and Thrombolytic Studies.Pharmaceutics · 2020Article
- 3D Printed Microfluidics.Annual review of analytical chemistry (Palo Alto, Calif.) · 2020Review
- Simple and low-cost production of hybrid 3D-printed microfluidic devices.Biomicrofluidics · 2019Article
- "Do-it-in-classroom" fabrication of microfluidic systems by replica moulding of pasta structures.Biomicrofluidics · 2018Article
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5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The field of complex microfluidic channels is rapidly expanding toward channels with variable cross-sections (i.e., beyond simple rounded channels with a constant diameter), as well as channels whose trajectory can be outside of a single plane. This paper introduces the use of three-dimensional (3D) printed soluble wax as cast molds for rapid fabrication of truly arbitrary microfluidic polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) channels that are not achieved through typical soft lithography. The molds are printed directly from computer-aided design files, followed by simple dissolution using a solvent after molding PDMS, making rapid prototyping of microfluidic devices possible in hours. As part of the fabrication method, the solubility of several build materials in solvents and their effect on PDMS were investigated to remove the 3D-printed molds from inside the replicated PDMS microfluidic channels without damage. Technology limits, including surface roughness and resolution by comparing the designed channels with fabricated cylindrical channels with various diameters, are also characterized. We reproduced a 3D image of an actual human cerebral artery as cerebral artery-shaped PDMS channels with a diameter of 240
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