What are microfluidic valves?
Microfluidic Valves. Microfluidic valves control the flow of neutral and aggressive liquids and gases in analytical and medical devices. View Products. Control Units. Electronic control units use pulse-width modulation to regulate flow, pressure, temperature and force of proportional valves.
What is a microfluidic pump?
Microfluidic pumps are typically used in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, and even engineering systems. Transporting small fluid volumes, microfluidic pumps control the flow of liquids and gases in the microliter range.
How do microfluidic valves work?
For microvalves, the bubble of air is introduced into the flow of fluid, cutting off the flow within the channel. By controlling the expansion of air within the channel, researchers can induce a fully-closed, partially-closed, and fully-closed flow in the device.
What are microfluidic devices used for?
Microfluidic devices are used to measure molecular diffusion coefficients, fluid viscosity, pH, and chemical binding coefficients.
How does a microvalve work?
A 2-way microvalve only opens and closes a fluid channel completely, while a micro-proportional valve also can open or close a fluid channel partially and thus can precisely meter a gas or fluid.
What are the typical biological applications of droplet based microfluidic?
Droplet microfluidics exhibits great promise for various applications in a broad spectrum of fields. Droplet-based platforms have been employed in chemical reactions, molecule synthesis, imaging, drug delivery, drug discovery, diagnostics, food, cell biology, and other applications.
Is membrane valve a microvalve?
Most common passive microvalves are flap valves, membrane microvalves and ball microvalves.
What are the different droplet manipulations used on a microfluidic chip?
Generally, three types of microfluidic geometries are utilized for passive droplet generation: (i) Cross-Flowing, (ii) Flow focusing, and (iii) Co-Flowing. Droplet based microfluidics often operate under low Reynold’s numbers to ensure laminar flow within the system.
What is a microfluidic platform?
A microfluidic platform allows to perform a set of fluidic unit operations that are enabled by a set of fluidic elements, which are designed for easy combination with a well-defined (and low-cost) fabrication technology.
Why are Microvalves important in microfluidic fabrication?
The microvalve is one of the most important components in microfluidic systems, and its functions include flow regulation, on/off switching, sealing of biomolecules, micro/nano particles, chemical reagents, etc.
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