Elastomeric microfluidic diode and rectifier work with Newtonian fluids.
We report on two microfluidic elastomeric autoregulatory devices-a diode and a rectifier. They exhibit physically interesting and complex nonlinear behaviors (saturation, bias-dependent resistance, and rectification) with a Newtonian fluid. Due to their autoregulatory properties, they operate without active external control. As a result, they enable increased microfluidic device density and overall system miniaturization. The demonstrated diode and rectifier would also be useful components in future microfluidic logic circuitry.
Liu
John
J
Chen
Yan
Y
Taylor
Clive R
CR
Scherer
Axel
A
Kartalov
Emil P
EP