Fabrication and characterization of microfluidic devices based on boron-modified epoxy resin using CO₂ laser ablation for bio-analytical applications.

ABSTRACT: CO₂ laser ablation is a rapid and precise technique for machining microfluidic devices. And also, low-cost epoxy resin (ER) proved the great feasibility of fabricating these devices using the CO₂ laser ablation technique in our previous studies. However, such a technique has shown negative impacts on such ER-based microfluidics as rough surface microchannels, and thermal defects. Therefore, incorporating different proportions of boric acid (BA) into epoxy resin formulation was proposed to obviate the genesis of these drawbacks in ER-based microfluidics. The structural and optical properties of plain ER- and B-doped ER-based chips were characterized by Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) and UV/Vis spectral analyses. Furthermore, their thermal properties were studied by

SUBMITTER: Mansour H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10400657 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature