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3D?F - Interactive Design Environment for Continuous Flow Microfluidic Devices.

ABSTRACT: The design of microfluidic Lab on a Chip (LoC) systems is an onerous task requiring specialized skills in fluid dynamics, mechanical design drafting, and manufacturing. Engineers face significant challenges during the labor-intensive process of designing microfluidic devices, with very few specialized tools that help automate the process. Typical design iterations require the engineer to research the architecture, manually draft the device layout, optimize for manufacturing processes, and manually calculate and program the valve sequences that operate the microfluidic device. The problem compounds when engineers not only have to test the functionality of the chip but are also expected to optimize them for the robust execution of biological assays. In this paper, we present an interactive tool for designing continuous flow microfluidic devices. 3D?F is the first completely open source interactive microfluidic system designer that readily supports state of the art design automation algorithms. Through various case studies, we show 3D?F can be used to reproduce designs from literature, provide metrics for evaluating microfluidic design complexity and showcase how 3D?F is a platform for integrating a wide assortment of engineering techniques used in the design of microfluidic devices as a part of the standard design workflow.

SUBMITTER: Sanka R

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6591506 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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3DμF - Interactive Design Environment for Continuous Flow Microfluidic Devices.

Sanka Radhakrishna R Lippai Joshua J Samarasekera Dinithi D Nemsick Sarah S Densmore Douglas D

Scientific reports 20190624 1

The design of microfluidic Lab on a Chip (LoC) systems is an onerous task requiring specialized skills in fluid dynamics, mechanical design drafting, and manufacturing. Engineers face significant challenges during the labor-intensive process of designing microfluidic devices, with very few specialized tools that help automate the process. Typical design iterations require the engineer to research the architecture, manually draft the device layout, optimize for manufacturing processes, and manual ...[more]

PMID: 31235804

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3D?F - Interactive Design Environment for Continuous Flow Microfluidic Devices.

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3DμF - Interactive Design Environment for Continuous Flow Microfluidic Devices.

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