Embellishment of microfluidic devices via femtosecond laser micronanofabrication for chip functionalization.
This paper demonstrates the embellishment of existing microfluidic devices with integrated three dimensional (3D) micronanostructures via femtosecond laser micronanofabrication, which, for the first time, proves two-photon photopolymerization (TPP) to be a powerful technology for chip functionalization. As representative examples, microsieves with various pore shape and adjustable pore size were successfully fabricated inside a conventional glass-based microfluidic channel prepared by wet etching for microparticle separation. Moreover, a fish scale like microfilter was also fabricated and appointed as a one-way valve, which showed excellent performance as we expected. These results indicate that such embellishment of microfluidic devices is simple, low cost, flexible and easy to access. We believe that, combined with TPP, the application of lab-on-chip devices would be further extended.
Wang
Juan
J
State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun, 130012, China.
He
Yan
Y
Xia
Hong
H
Niu
Li-Gang
LG
Zhang
Ran
R
Chen
Qi-Dai
QD
Zhang
Yong-Lai
YL
Li
Yan-Feng
YF
Zeng
Shao-Jiang
SJ
Qin
Jian-Hua
JH
Lin
Bing-Cheng
BC
Sun
Hong-Bo
HB
D056656:Lab-On-A-Chip Devices; D007834:Lasers; D046210:Microfluidic Analytical Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D055668:Photochemical Processes