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ArticleNanoscale research letters2019

Fabrication of polydimethylsiloxane nanofluidic chips under AFM tip-based nanomilling process.

Jiqiang Wang, Yongda Yan, Yanquan Geng, Yang Gan, Zhuo Fang

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Article in Nanoscale research letters, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jiqiang WangKey Laboratory of Micro-systems and Micro-structures Manufacturing of Ministry of Education, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China.
Yongda YanKey Laboratory of Micro-systems and Micro-structures Manufacturing of Ministry of Education, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China.
Yanquan GengKey Laboratory of Micro-systems and Micro-structures Manufacturing of Ministry of Education, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China. gengyanquan@hit.edu.cn.
Yang GanSchool of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, People's Republic of China.
Zhuo FangCenter for Precision Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China.
Harbin Institute of Technology · CN

Funding

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (CN) No. 2017M610206, 2018T110289Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China 51521003Key Laboratory of Micro-systems and Micro-structures Manufacturing of Ministry of Education Harbin Institute of Technology No. 2017KM005National Natural Science Foundation of China 51675134National Natural Science Foundation of China 51705104
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In current research realm, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)-based nanofluidic devices are widely used in medical, chemical, and biological applications. In the present paper, a novel nanomilling technique (consisting of an AFM system and a piezoelectric actuator) was proposed to fabricate nanochannels (with controllable sizes) on PDMS chips, and nanochannel size was controlled by the driving voltage and frequency inputted to the piezoelectric actuator. Moreover, microchannel and nanochannel molds were respectively fabricated by UV lithography and AFM tip-based nanomilling, and finally, PDMS slabs with micro/nanochannels were obtained by transfer process. The influences of PDMS weight ratio on nanochannel size were also investigated. The bonding process of microchannel and nanochannel slabs was conducted on a homemade alignment system consisted of an optical monocular microscope and precision stages. Furthermore, the effects of nanochannel size on electrical characteristics of KCl solution (concentration of 1 mM) were analyzed. Therefore, it can be concluded that PDMS nanofluidic devices with multiple nanochannels of sub-100-nm depth can be efficiently and economically fabricated by the proposed method.

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Atomic force microscopyNanochannelsNanofluidic chipNanomilling

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