Engineering of Removing Sacrificial Materials in 3D-Printed Microfluidics.

ABSTRACT: Three-dimensional (3D) printing will create a revolution in the field of microfluidics due to fabricating truly three-dimensional channels in a single step. During the 3D-printing process, sacrificial materials are usually needed to fulfill channels inside and support the printed chip outside. Removing sacrificial materials after printing is obviously crucial for applying these 3D printed chips to microfluidics. However, there are few standard methods to address this issue. In this paper, engineering techniques of removing outer and inner sacrificial materials were studied. Meanwhile, quantification methods of removal efficiency for outer and inner sacrificial materials were proposed, respectively. For outer sacrificial materials, a hot bath in vegetable oil can remove 89.9% ± 0.1% of sacr

SUBMITTER: Yin P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6082279 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature