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Unibody Lab-on-a-chip Fast Prototyping

May 10, 2015

Author: Germán Comina, Anke Suska and Daniel Filippini Optical Devices Laboratory (ODL) Linkoping University, Sweden Introduction: The development of disposable devices for optical chemical detection with cell phones, entail challenging [more...]

Microfluidic Connection and Flow Resistance

March 11, 2015

Introduction This article covers some tips for setting up microfluidic systems. Flow resistance is a crucial parameter for flow stability, and effective optimization of flow resistance and pressures during setup [more...]

Defining Resolution and Stability in Microfluidic Systems

March 11, 2015

Difference Between Resolution and Stability When discussing microfluidic systems, there can sometimes be confusion with regards to the meanings of stability and resolution. Three parameters need to be examined to [more...]

Low-tech Microfluidics

February 11, 2015

Microfluidic chips made in the Science Practice studio “This article is written by Dr Tempest van Schaik and has been reposted with permission from the Science Practice blog. Science Practice is a research and [more...]

BioMEMS and BioInstrumentation, Lecture Series from Wayne State University

February 4, 2015

Professor Amar Basu from Wayne State University is posting video lectures from his course, BioMEMS and BioInstrumentation, offered in the Winter semester 2015. This course is an interdisciplinary graduate level course is open to [more...]

A Simple and Low Cost Method to Fabricate NOA Microfluidic Chips

January 11, 2015

Microfluidic chips are often made of silicon or glass which presents the drawbacks of being relatively expensive, time consuming and has limitations to the geometries that can be realized. PMMA [more...]

Microfluidic Hydraulic Circuits-Hydraulic Resistance and Capacitance

January 4, 2015

This tutorial video is from Cornell University Mechanical Engineering 6240 – Physics of Micro- and Nanoscale Fluid Mechanics – 29 Aug 2012. A discussion of the matrix formalism for solving P=QR [more...]

Laminar flow patterning in microfluidic devices

December 27, 2014

This video tutorial is from Cornell University Mechanical Engineering 6240 – Physics of Micro- and Nanoscale Fluid Mechanics on Sep 5th 2012. A discussion of two examples of laminar flow patterning [more...]

MicroTAS 2014 Workshop – Inertial Microfluidics

November 2, 2014

Professor Dino Di Carlo from Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles gave a workshop on using inertial microfluidics to manipulate fluids and particles on Oct 26th at MicroTAS [more...]

Fabrication of Glass Microfluidic Devices

October 19, 2014

Material Specifications Glass is a popular substrate for microfluidic (mF) chips, although plastics are becoming more common due to the ease in fabrication. Several types of glass are used in [more...]

Piezoelectric Generator and Actuator

October 19, 2014

This video is a tutorial of how to examine the piezoelectric elements in a lighter and a buzzer. The steps of disassembly as well as testing and exploration are shown. [more...]

Paper Microfluidics

October 19, 2014

This video is a tutorial on creating a paper microfluidic device through wax curing, droplet test, and choosing proper channels. Applications are demonstrated as well, including mixing and chemical sensors. [more...]

Flow Cytometry and Inkjet Technology

October 19, 2014

Cytometry is a general name for a group of biological methods used to measure various parameters of cells. Parameters which can be measured by cytometry are cell size and morphology, [more...]

Flow Cytometry Tutorials: Doublet Discrimination

August 27, 2014

This video demonstrates how to exclude doublets from your Flow Cytometry data analysis. By the end of this tutorial, you should be able to understand: What doublets and clumps are? [more...]