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Universal pre-mixing dry-film stickers capable of retrofitting existing microfluidics

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BIOMICROFLUIDICS
卷 17, 期 1, 页码 -

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AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0122771

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Integrating microfluidic mixers into lab-on-a-chip devices is challenging but important. The presented universal dry-film microfluidic mixing sticker can retrofit pre-existing microfluidics and maintain high performance. It utilizes laser-cut silicone-adhesive-coated polymer sheets to create complex designs that can be adhered to various surfaces, allowing easy assembly of the traditional F-mixer and a novel spiral F-mixer. The technology has numerous applications in point-of-care devices, microphysiological systems, and biomedical research.
Integrating microfluidic mixers into lab-on-a-chip devices remains challenging yet important for numerous applications including dilutions, extractions, addition of reagents or drugs, and particle synthesis. High-efficiency mixers utilize large or intricate geometries that are difficult to manufacture and co-implement with lab-on-a-chip processes, leading to cumbersome two-chip solutions. We present a universal dry-film microfluidic mixing sticker that can retrofit pre-existing microfluidics and maintain high mixing performance over a range of Reynolds numbers and input mixing ratios. To attach our pre-mixing sticker module, remove the backing material and press the sticker onto an existing microfluidic/substrate. Our innovation centers around the multilayer use of laser-cut commercially available silicone-adhesive-coated polymer sheets as microfluidic layers to create geometrically complex, easy to assemble designs that can be adhered to a variety of surfaces, namely, existing microfluidic devices. Our approach enabled us to assemble the traditional yet difficult to manufacture F-mixer in minutes and conceptually extend this design to create a novel space-saving spiral F-mixer. Computational fluid dynamic simulations and experimental results confirmed that both designs maintained high performance for 0.1 < Re < 10 and disparate input mixing ratios of 1:10. We tested the integration of our system by using the pre-mixer to fluorescently tag proteins encapsulated in an existing microfluidic. When integrated with another microfluidic, our pre-mixing sticker successfully combined primary and secondary antibodies to fluorescently tag micropatterned proteins with high spatial uniformity, unlike a traditional pre-mixing T-mixer sticker. Given the ease of this technology, we anticipate numerous applications for point-of-care devices, microphysiological-systems-on-a-chip, and microfluidic-based biomedical research.

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