Marc Chooljian
Department of Bioengineering. UC Berkeley
BSAC Graduate Researcher, Dorian Liepmann Group
March 13, 2018 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall
Host: Michael Cable
The idea of a "microscale total analysis system," or "lab-on-a-chip," inspires academic research due to the promise of increased replicability and throughput in biochemical screening, and the capability to measure and manipulate biology in the hundreds of microns to tens of nanometers. There has been comparatively little success in the field commercially which can be partially attributed to a mismatch between the materials and integration requirements of large-scale manufacturing and the prototyping techniques used by most microfluidics laboratories. New prototyping techniques that are compatible with a larger variety of materials are needed.
We present a workflow allowing for lab-scale prototyping of integrated microfluidic-electronic devices in thermoplastics. The technique, based on hot embossing, uses mechanical force to simultaneously pattern microfluidic channels and multilayer electrode geometries for sensing and interconnects, and can be modified to embed silicon or glass microchips in the plastic, allowing for packaging of CMOS or MEMS devices with microfluidic channels. Active microfluidic flow control and sensing elements, including microvalve and micropump designs and a parallel-plate flow cytometer which rely on the unique multilayer electrode patterning abilities of the fabrication strategy, will be discussed.
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