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View SchemaPlanar microfluidics - liquid handling without walls
| Authors | A. Rathgeber, C. Strobl, H. -J. Kutschera, A. Wixforth |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0104079 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0104079 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.jcis.2011.02.022 |
Abstract
The miniaturization and integration of electronic circuitry has not only made the enormous increase in performance of semiconductor devices possible but also spawned a myriad of new products and applications ranging from a cellular phone to a personal computer. Similarly, the miniaturization and integration of chemical and biological processes will revolutionize life sciences. Drug design and diagnostics in the genomic era require reliable and cost effective high throughput technologies which can be integrated and allow for a massive parallelization. Microfluidics is the core technology to realize such miniaturized laboratories with feature sizes on a submillimeter scale. Here, we report on a novel microfluidic technology meeting the basic requirements for a microfluidic processor analogous to those of its electronic counterpart: Cost effective production, modular design, high speed, scalability and programmability.
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