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JOURNAL OF THE TEXTILE INSTITUTE
Volume 103, Issue 10, Pages 1077-1087Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00405000.2012.660756
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microfluidics; textile capillarity; mixing; sorting; energy harvesting
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Microfluidics technology allows us to perform rapid and massively parallel manipulation and characterization of fluid samples with biomedical and environmental importance. In the attempt to achieve resource-efficient fabrication and operation of the microfluidic devices, paper-based and thread-based microfluidics have been previously demonstrated by other researchers. We propose to develop textile-based microfluidics, formed by three-dimensional networks of individual threads, to further advance the ability of paper-based and thread-based microfluidics. This paper describes four different phenomena that we investigate in textile-based microfluidic systems: modulated wetting, liquid mixing, liquid sorting, and energy harvesting. Our results indicate the feasibility of textiles as a new platform to develop low-cost microfluidic technology.
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