title: Elastomeric microfluidic diode and rectifier work with Newtonian fluids.
abstract: 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.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Clive R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: Axel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Scherer
authors.forename: Emil P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Kartalov