Fast benchtop fabrication of laminar flow chambers for advanced microscopy techniques.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Fluid handling technology is acquiring an ever more prominent place in laboratory science whether it is in simple buffer exchange systems, perfusion chambers, or advanced microfluidic devices. Many of these applications remain the providence of laboratories at large institutions with a great deal of expertise and specialized equipment. Even with the expansion of these techniques, limitations remain that frequently prevent the coupling of controlled fluid flow with other technologies, such as coupling microfluidics and high-resolution position and force measurements by optical trapping microscopy.

Method

Here we present a method for fabrication of multiple-input laminar flow devices that are optically clear [glass] on each face, chemically inert, reusable, inexpens

SUBMITTER: Courson DS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2714461 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature