What is microfluidic technique?
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Microfluidics is the science and technology of systems that process or manipulate small amounts of fluidics (10−9 to 10−18L), using channels measuring from tens to hundreds of micrometers. From: Chemical Analysis of Food: Techniques and Applications, 2012.
What is microfluidic fabrication?
The approaches for microfluidic device fabrications are described in terms of low volume production (casting, lamination, laser ablation, 3D printing) and high-volume production (hot embossing, injection moulding, and film or sheet operations).
What is microfluidic flow?
Microfluidics is both the science which studies the behaviour of fluids through micro-channels, and the technology of manufacturing microminiaturized devices containing chambers and tunnels through which fluids flow or are confined.
What is microfluidic chamber?
The microfluidic chamber provides a facile platform for studying neuron-to-cell transmission of infection and viral transport in vitro. The chamber is fabricated using soft lithography, resulting in reproducible and high-throughput experiments.
What is microfluidic platform?
A microfluidic platform allows to perform a set of fluidic unit operations that are enabled by a set of fluidic elements, which are designed for easy combination with a well-defined (and low-cost) fabrication technology.
What are microfluidic devices?
An instrument that uses very small amounts of fluid on a microchip to do certain laboratory tests. A microfluidic device may use body fluids or solutions containing cells or cell parts to diagnose diseases. Also called lab-on-a-chip.
What is a microfluidic chamber?
Basic microfluidic cell culture chamber with narrow microchannels. In this configuration, cells are injected/pumped using high pressure or manual syringe inside tight channels with sizes a little bit smaller than cells. Once cells are trapped, medium or drugs can be perfused at lower pressure through the microchannels.
How does a microfluidic device work?
Microfluidics systems work by using a pump and a chip. Different types of pumps precisely move liquid inside the chip with a rate of 1 μL/minute to 10,000 μL/minute.