Janelle R. Anderson

TL;DR: Fabrication of microfluidic devices in poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) by soft lithography provides faster, less expensive routes to devices that handle aqueous solutions.

TL;DR: This method can generate topologically complex microfluidic systems and can fabricate a membrane containing a channel that crosses over and under itself, but does not intersect itself and, therefore, can be fabricated in the form of any knot.

TL;DR: In this paper, an improved microfluidic system can be fabricated via replica molding processes, also provided by the invention, utilizing mold masters including surfaces having topological features formed by photolithography, which can include three-dimensionalally arrayed networks of fluid flow paths therein including channels that cross over or under other channels of the network without physical intersection at the points of cross over.

TL;DR: A solid-object printer was used to produce masters for the fabrication of microfluidic devices in poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS), which provides an alternative to photolithography for applications where features of > 250 microm are needed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the fabrication of flexible, polymeric 3D microfluidic systems with integrated check valves (flap and diaphragm valves) and a pump by stacking patterned poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) layers containing microchannels and vias.