Large scale patterning of hydrogel microarrays using capillary pinning.

Capillary barriers provide a simple and elegant means for autonomous fluid-flow control in microfluidic systems. In this work, we report on the fabrication of periodic hydrogel microarrays in closed microfluidic systems using non-fluorescent capillary barriers. This design strategy enables the fabrication of picoliter-volume patterns of photopolymerized and thermo-gelling hydrogels without any defects and distortions.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Lab on a Chip

• Publication date

  2015-01-22

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Materials Science, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1039/c4lc01350fPMID 25512130
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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