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ArticleNature communications2022

Structural colour enhanced microfluidics.

Detao Qin, Andrew H Gibbons, Masateru M Ito, Sangamithirai Subramanian Parimalam, Handong Jiang, H Enis Karahan, Behnam Ghalei, Daisuke Yamaguchi, Ganesh N Pandian, Easan Sivaniah

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Article in Nature communications, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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10 authors.

Detao QinInstitute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University of Advanced Study, Kyoto University, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-0669-3229
Andrew H GibbonsInstitute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University of Advanced Study, Kyoto University, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan.
Masateru M ItoInstitute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University of Advanced Study, Kyoto University, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan. mito@icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp.ORCID 0000-0002-6989-4466
Sangamithirai Subramanian ParimalamInstitute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University of Advanced Study, Kyoto University, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-1824-054X
Handong JiangInstitute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University of Advanced Study, Kyoto University, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan.
H Enis KarahanInstitute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University of Advanced Study, Kyoto University, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-7753-1024
Behnam GhaleiInstitute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University of Advanced Study, Kyoto University, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-2848-9138
Daisuke YamaguchiInstitute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University of Advanced Study, Kyoto University, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan.
Ganesh N PandianInstitute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University of Advanced Study, Kyoto University, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan.
Easan SivaniahInstitute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University of Advanced Study, Kyoto University, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan. esivaniah@icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp.ORCID 0000-0001-7293-8370

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Advances in microfluidic technology towards flexibility, transparency, functionality, wearability, scale reduction or complexity enhancement are currently limited by choices in materials and assembly methods. Organized microfibrillation is a method for optically printing well-defined porosity into thin polymer films with ultrahigh resolution. Here we demonstrate this method to create self-enclosed microfluidic devices with a few simple steps, in a number of flexible and transparent formats. Structural colour, a property of organized microfibrillation, becomes an intrinsic feature of these microfluidic devices, enabling in-situ sensing capability. Since the system fluid dynamics are dependent on the internal pore size, capillary flow is shown to become characterized by structural colour, while independent of channel dimension, irrespective of whether devices are printed at the centimetre or micrometre scale. Moreover, the capability of generating and combining different internal porosities enables the OM microfluidics to be used for pore-size based applications, as demonstrated by separation of biomolecular mixtures.

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MicrofluidicsPrinting, Three-DimensionalColorLab-On-A-Chip DevicesPorosity

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PMCPMC9120135

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