ArticleNature communications2021
Spatially and optically tailored 3D printing for highly miniaturized and integrated microfluidics.
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- Microfluidic- and Field-Assisted 3D Printing: Leveraging Fluidic Control, Electrokinetic Phenomena, and Other Physical Fields to Advance Additive Manufacturing.Electrophoresis · 2025Review
- Pressurized photobonding for 3D-printed inertial and droplet microfluidics.Lab on a chip · 2025Article
- A Protocol Guide to Micro Milling for Bio-Microfluidics.Bio-protocol · 2025Article
- An open source platform to automate the design, verification, and manufacture of 3D printed microfluidic devices.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- 3D-printed plugs enhance cell usage efficiency for single-cell migration and neuron axon guidance assays.Cell reports methods · 2025Article
- Step Test for Rapid Screening of Material and Process Parameters for Resin Development in DLP 3D Printing.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025Article
- The Application of Microfluidic Chips in Primary Urological Cancer: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives.Smart medicine · 2025Review
- 3D Printed Microfluidic Devices for Integrated Immunoaffinity Extraction, Solid-Phase Extraction, and Fluorescent Labeling of Preterm Birth Biomarkers.Precision chemistry · 2025Article
- 3D Printing in Biocatalysis and Biosensing: From General Concepts to Practical Applications.Chemistry, an Asian journal · 2024Review
- 3D digital light process bioprinting: Cutting-edge platforms for resolution of organ fabrication.Materials today. Bio · 2024Review
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Abstract
Traditional 3D printing based on Digital Light Processing Stereolithography (DLP-SL) is unnecessarily limiting as applied to microfluidic device fabrication, especially for high-resolution features. This limitation is due primarily to inherent tradeoffs between layer thickness, exposure time, material strength, and optical penetration that can be impossible to satisfy for microfluidic features. We introduce a generalized 3D printing process that significantly expands the accessible spatially distributed optical dose parameter space to enable the fabrication of much higher resolution 3D components without increasing the resolution of the 3D printer. Here we demonstrate component miniaturization in conjunction with a high degree of integration, including 15 μm × 15 μm valves and a 2.2 mm × 1.1 mm 10-stage 2-fold serial diluter. These results illustrate our approach's promise to enable highly functional and compact microfluidic devices for a wide variety of biomolecular applications.
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