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SUBMITTER: Urrios A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4930360 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Urrios Arturo A Parra-Cabrera Cesar C Bhattacharjee Nirveek N Gonzalez-Suarez Alan M AM Rigat-Brugarolas Luis G LG Nallapatti Umashree U Samitier Josep J DeForest Cole A CA Posas Francesc F Garcia-Cordero José L JL Folch Albert A
Lab on a chip 20160524 12
The vast majority of microfluidic systems are molded in poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) by soft lithography due to the favorable properties of PDMS: biocompatible, elastomeric, transparent, gas-permeable, inexpensive, and copyright-free. However, PDMS molding involves tedious manual labor, which makes PDMS devices prone to assembly failures and difficult to disseminate to research and clinical settings. Furthermore, the fabrication procedures limit the 3D complexity of the devices to layered desig ...[more]