Kassanos Panagiotis, Seichepine Florent, Kassanos Ioannis, Yang Guang-Zhong
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2020 Jul;2020:5037-5040. doi: 10.1109/EMBC44109.2020.9176657.
Since the introduction of microfluidics in the 1990s, the community has investigated numerous methods for their fabrication. However, there is interest for their inexpensive rapid prototyping. PCB technology as a low-cost, massfabrication approach for the realization of sensors has attracted attention, while its use for microfluidics is also gaining ground. In this paper the development and characterization of a microfluidic Y-channel is presented. The proposed design and assembly process for realizing the device is described in detail and the flow rate and mixing within the microchannel are characterized, demonstrating the feasibility of the proposed novel technology for lab-on-PCB devices.
自20世纪90年代微流体技术问世以来，该领域已对其多种制造方法进行了研究。然而，人们对其低成本快速成型技术也很感兴趣。印刷电路板（PCB）技术作为一种用于实现传感器的低成本大规模制造方法已受到关注，同时其在微流体领域的应用也日益广泛。本文介绍了一种微流体Y型通道的开发与特性。详细描述了实现该器件的设计和组装过程，并对微通道内的流速和混合情况进行了特性分析，证明了所提出的用于印刷电路板上实验室设备的新技术的可行性。
