Tuesday, September 29, 2009

How to move a drop of fluid.

One constant difficulty in microfluidics is devising similarly small systems to move the volume of fluid. It seems the University of Michigan has come up with one very elegant solution:

Tuned cavities are resonated, causing air to move through connected channels and push fluids along.
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While still very much a concept the simplicity of the solution is admirable.

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