Poly (dimethylsiloxane) as a material for fabricating microfluidic devices

JC McDonald, GM Whitesides - Accounts of chemical research, 2002 - ACS Publications
This Account summarizes techniques for fabrication and applications in biomedicine of
microfluidic devices fabricated in poly (dimethylsiloxane)(PDMS). The methods and …

Micro total analysis systems. 2. Analytical standard operations and applications

PA Auroux, D Iossifidis, DR Reyes, A Manz - Analytical chemistry, 2002 - ACS Publications
After having reviewed some aspects of microfluidic system preparation in the first part (1), in
this second part of the review we will cover a number of standard operations (namely …

Solvent compatibility of poly (dimethylsiloxane)-based microfluidic devices

JN Lee, C Park, GM Whitesides - Analytical chemistry, 2003 - ACS Publications
This paper describes the compatibility of poly (dimethylsiloxane)(PDMS) with organic
solvents; this compatibility is important in considering the potential of PDMS-based …

Direct ink writing of 3D functional materials

JA Lewis - Advanced Functional Materials, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The ability to pattern materials in three dimensions is critical for several technological
applications, including composites, microfluidics, photonics, and tissue engineering. Direct …

Optical chemical sensors

C McDonagh, CS Burke, BD MacCraith - Chemical reviews, 2008 - ACS Publications
The field of optical chemical sensors has been a growing research area over the last three
decades. A wide range of books and review articles has been published by experts in the …

Studies on surface wettability of poly (dimethyl) siloxane (PDMS) and glass under oxygen-plasma treatment and correlation with bond strength

S Bhattacharya, A Datta, JM Berg… - Journal of …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An issue in microfabrication of the fluidic channels in glass/poly (dimethyl siloxane)(PDMS)
is the absence of a well-defined study of the bonding strength between the surfaces making …

Integrated optofluidics: A new river of light

C Monat, P Domachuk, BJ Eggleton - Nature photonics, 2007 - nature.com
The realization of miniaturized optofluidic platforms offers potential for achieving more
functional and more compact devices. Such integrated systems bring fluid and light together …

Chaotic mixing in three-dimensional microvascular networks fabricated by direct-write assembly

D Therriault, SR White, JA Lewis - Nature materials, 2003 - nature.com
The creation of geometrically complex fluidic devices is a subject of broad fundamental and
technological interest. Here, we demonstrate the fabrication of three-dimensional (3D) …

Components for integrated poly (dimethylsiloxane) microfluidic systems

JMK Ng, I Gitlin, AD Stroock, GM Whitesides - Electrophoresis, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
This review describes the design and fabrication of microfluidic systems in poly
(dimethylsiloxane)(PDMS). PDMS is a soft polymer with attractive physical and chemical …

Integrated microfluidic devices

D Erickson, D Li - Analytica chimica acta, 2004 - Elsevier
“With the fundamentals of microscale flow and species transport well developed, the recent
trend in microfluidics has been to work towards the development of integrated devices which …