Engineering the next generation of inexpensive and sophisticated microfluidic technologies
What is Microfluidics 2.0?
- Portable laboratory tests,
minus the equipment - Low-cost fluid manipulation
- Replacing pumps with
wicking materials
Join us in engineering the next generation of microfluidic technologies
Look Ma, No Pumps!
Using capillary action, microfluidic systems can move fluids without expensive and complicated pumping mechanisms. Flow rates and exposure times can be controlled by adjusting the materials, geometry, and reagents used in the device.
Paper Routes
Designing an inexpensive device? Try building it out of paper! A wide range of porous materials have been engineered to give optimal performance in capillary-driven devices. They move fluids, bind molecules, and save money.
New Opportunities
By removing the need for pumps, capillarity-based detection systems can perform sophisticated sample analyses where other systems can't. Think of them as producing a medical device, minus the "device."