Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Laminated thin-film Teflon chips for petrochemical applications

Lab on a Chip, 2012, Accepted Manuscript, First published on the web 31 Aug 2012
Laminated thin-film Teflon chips for petrochemical applications
Thomas William de Haas ,  Hossein Fadaei and David Sinton
Abstract
Authors describe Teflon-based microfluidic chips fabricated by laminating multiple layers of laser-cut Teflon film.  The chips enable simple multilayer fabrication, have uniform rectangular cross-section and are sufficiently thin to (1) reduce cost, (2) enable rapid temperature control, and (3) provide optical transparency.
In addition, they are solvent-resistant.  The chips can be fabricated without a cleanroom from start to finish in less than 2 hours.  They demonstrate the potential of this approach by measuring the displacement of an oil solution by carbon dioxide in a nine-layer thin-film Teflon chip modelling porous media.
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