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ArticleMicromachines2020

Facile Fabrication of Thin-Bottom Round-Well Plates Using the Deformation of PDMS Molds and Their Application for Single-Cell PCR.

Shinya Yamahira, Yuji Heike

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Article in Micromachines, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 authors.

Shinya YamahiraCenter for Medical Sciences of St. Luke's International University, 3-6-2, Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan.
Yuji HeikeCenter for Medical Sciences of St. Luke's International University, 3-6-2, Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan.

Funding

Japan Science and Technology Agency 19217334Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology 16812307Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology 19k15366
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recently, microdevices made of resins have been strongly supporting cell analysis in a range of fields, from fundamental life science research to medical applications. Many microdevices are fabricated by molding resin to a mold made precisely from rigid materials. However, because dimensional errors in the mold are also accurately printed to the products, the accuracy of the product is limited to less than the accuracy of the rigid mold. Therefore, we hypothesized that if dimensional errors could be self-corrected by elastic molds, microdevices could be facilely fabricated with precision beyond that of molds. In this paper, we report a novel processing strategy in which an elastic mold made of polymethylsiloxane (PDMS) deforms to compensate for the dimensional error on the products. By heat-press molding a polycarbonate plate using a mold that has 384 PDMS convexes with a large dimensional error of height of ± 15.6 µm in standard deviation, a 384-round-well plate with a bottom thickness 13.3 ± 2.3 µm (

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elastic moldheat-pressmicrofabricationmulti-well platepolymethylsiloxane moldsingle-cell polymerase chain reactionthin wall

Identifiers

PMID32751967
PMCPMC7464382

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