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Article: Rapid Fabrication of Microfluidic Devices by Photocopying. (Materials Science).(Brief Article)
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- Semiconductor International
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- January 1, 2002
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An Irish collaborative group has described a very simple and rapid method for the fabrication of microfluidic devices based on the material poly-dimethylsiloxane (PDMS). The fabrication process is greatly simplified and accelerated by using a standard photocopying machine to make a master on a transparency instead of using lithographic equipment. The fabrication is said to require
This work has been performed by Professor Jeremy Glennon and colleagues at the Microseparations Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, National University of Ireland (Cork, Ireland), in collaboration with Kenneth Rogers et al. of the National Microelectronics Research Centre (Lee Maltings, Cork, ...