Fundamentals of Multiscale Fabrication Micro- and nanofluidics Lecture 11 Applications III: Micro- and nanofluidics Kahp-Yang Suh Associate Professor SNU MAE sky4u@snu.ac.kr
What is Microfluidics? Microfluidics is a technology which refers to the research and development of micro-scale devices which handle small volumes of fluids (as small as micro-, nano-, pico- and even femtoliter volumes). The devices have dimensions ranging from several millimeters to micrometers ~ the miniaturization of the entire system is not a requirement. Materials for microfluidics Fabrication of microfluidics Microfluidic components
Micro-/nanofluidics ► Micro/nanofluidics aims at investigating and developing miniature device which sense, pump, mix, monitor, and control small volume of fluids. ► Micro/nanofluidics has the potential to revolutionize the process and products that use fluid by high integration with a process.
Figure 1. Downscaling of volumes Micro-/nanofluidics Figure 1. Downscaling of volumes
Microfluidics in nature Biomimetic surface In vivo Surface tension
Nanofluidics in nature EDL overlap Aquaporins Ion channel
Transport at different length scale Nanofluidic toolbox
Basic properties in Microfluidics ► All flow is laminar (no turbulent mixing) ► Surface tension becomes significant ► No inertia effects ► Apparent viscosity increases
Microfluidic channels Variety of shapes and manufacturing techniques, depending on application. Typically laminar due to very small length scales and flow rates.
Laminar Flow in Microfluidic Channels
Multiscale microfluidic elements
Master fabrication
PDMS mold: wonder material for BioMEMS
PDMS mold
Channel Fabrication – Example
Advantages of Microfluidics
Microfluidic Systems for uTAS
Synthesis with Micro reactor
Drug Delivery Microchip J. Santini and R. Langer, MIT
Drug Delivery Micro Needles
Scaling in Micro-/nanofluidics
Scaling in Micro-/nanofluidics
Scaling in Micro-/nanofluidics
Scaling in Micro-/nanofluidics
Scaling in Micro-/nanofluidics
Scaling in Micro-/nanofluidics
Scaling in Micro-/nanofluidics
Scaling in Micro-/nanofluidics
Scaling in Micro-/nanofluidics