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JOURNAL OF MICROMECHANICS AND MICROENGINEERING
Volume 23, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/23/3/035007
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- World Class University program through the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation [R32-2008-000-10124-0]
- National Science Foundation of United States [ECCS 0901503]
- National Research Council of Science & Technology (NST), Republic of Korea [13-12-N0201-07] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
- National Research Foundation of Korea [R32-2012-000-10124-0] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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We investigated the use of thermally treated polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) for chemically-resistant microchannels. When the PDMS underwent the thermal treatment at 300 degrees C, swelling was reduced and the surface of the PDMS microfluidic channel endured well in the extracting media such as dichloromethane. Furthermore, despite the small decrease in size after thermal treatment, both the channel shape and transparency were maintained without showing fluid leakage. The thermally treated PDMS had more hydrophilic properties compared to the untreated PDMS. A single step post-casting process described in this work does not require complex chemical treatments or introduction of foreign materials to the host PDMS substrate, thus expanding the application area of PDMS-based microfluidics.
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