ArticleMicromachines2021
A Novel On-Chip Liquid-Metal-Enabled Microvalve.
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- Texture-structure-based liquid metal filling for blind-end microchannels and its application on multi-layer chips.RSC advances · 2023Article
- Structural Optimization Design of Microfluidic Chips Based on Fast Sequence Pair Algorithm.Micromachines · 2023Article
- Pressure Driven Rapid Reconfigurable Liquid Metal Patterning.Micromachines · 2023Article
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Abstract
A room temperature liquid metal-based microvalve has been proposed in this work. The microvalve has the advantages of easy fabrication, high flexibility, and a low leak rate. By designing a posts array in the channel, the liquid metal can be controlled to form a deformable valve boss and block the flow path. Besides, through adjustment of the pressure applied to the liquid metal, the microvalve can perform reliable switching commands. To eliminate the problem that liquid metal is easily oxidized, which causes the microvalve to have poor repeatability, a method of electrochemical cathodic protection has been proposed, which significantly increases the number of open/close switch cycles up to 145. In addition, this microvalve overcomes the shortcomings of the traditional microvalve that requires an alignment process to assemble all the parts. When the valve is closed, no leak rate is detected at ≤320 mbar, and the leak rate is ≤0.043 μL/min at 330 mbar, which indicates it has good tightness. As an application, we also fabricate a chip that can control bubble flow based on this microvalve. Therefore, this microvalve has great prospects in the field of microfluidics.
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