Indirect fabrication of versatile 3D microfluidic device by a rotating plate combined 3D printing system.

ABSTRACT: In the past decade, 3D-printing technology has been applied in the field of microfluidics to fabricate microfluidic devices for wide-ranging areas of study including chemistry, biology, medicine, and others. However, these methods face several limitations such as insufficient resolution and long fabrication time. In this study, versatile microfluidic devices with different functions were indirectly fabricated by a rapid sacrificial template printing process using a photocurable fluoropolymer with chemical durability. The Pluronic® F127 hydrogel as a sacrificial template was rapidly patterned on substrates by a non-lithographic printing process using a computer-controlled 3D-printing system. Viscous fluoropolymer was cast on the non-deformable template that was consequently removed by apply

SUBMITTER: Ha DH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9089432 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature