Split and flow: reconfigurable capillary connection for digital microfluidic devices | Zendy

F. Lapierre | Zendy; Maxime Harnois | Zendy; Yannick Coffinier | Zendy; Rabah Boukherroub | Zendy; V. Thomy | Zendy

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Split and flow: reconfigurable capillary connection for digital microfluidic devices

Author(s) -

F. Lapierre,

Maxime Harnois,

Yannick Coffinier,

Rabah Boukherroub,

V. Thomy

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

lab on a chip

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.064

H-Index - 210

eISSN - 1473-0197

pISSN - 1473-0189

DOI - 10.1039/c4lc00650j

Subject(s) - microfluidics , capillary action , connection (principal bundle) , digital microfluidics , flow (mathematics) , nanotechnology , coupling (piping) , computer science , materials science , engineering , optoelectronics , mechanical engineering , physics , mechanics , electrowetting , composite material , dielectric

Supplying liquid to droplet-based microfluidic microsystems remains a delicate task facing the problems of coupling continuous to digital or macro- to microfluidic systems. Here, we take advantage of superhydrophobic microgrids to address this problem. Insertion of a capillary tube inside a microgrid aperture leads to a simple and reconfigurable droplet generation setup.

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