Heating Carve Technique for Polymer Microfluidic Microchannel

Abstract:

A new manufacture mainly for polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) microfluidic chips is presented in this paper. In this technique, polymer microfluidic microchannels were fabricated by microcutter which temperature is controlled and stabilized by PID methord. There are so many techniques, such as hot embossing, laser direct-write, for mass-production of polymer microfluidic chip. However, we may feel different kinds of shortages when we use these techniques. In this paper, the experiment result shows that microcutter’s movement velocity and temperature have effert on microfluidic microchannel’s roughness.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 503)
• Pages: 103-107
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.503.103
• Online since: February 2012
• Authors: Xiao Wei Han, Wei Wang, G.H. Ye, Xiao Wei Liu, Li Tian, Zhi Gang Mao
• Keywords: Heating Carve Technique, Microfluidic Chip, Polymer

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