Issue 4, 2011
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Lab on a Chip

Compressed-air flow control system†

Ki Wan Bong,‡a   Stephen C. Chapin,‡a   Daniel C. Pregibon,b   David Baah,c   Tamara M. Floyd-Smithd  and  Patrick S. Doyle*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT, 66-053, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA, USA
E-mail: pdoyle@mit.edu

b Firefly BioWorks, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA

c Materials Science and Engineering Program, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL, USA

d Department of Chemical Engineering, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL, USA

Abstract

We present the construction and operation of a compressed-air driven flow system that can be used for a variety of microfluidic applications that require rapid dynamic response and precise control of multiple inlet streams. With the use of inexpensive and readily available parts, we describe how to assemble this versatile control system and further explore its utility in continuous- and pulsed-flow microfluidic procedures for the synthesis and analysis of microparticles.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0LC00303D
Article type
Technical Note
Submitted
17 Aug 2010
Accepted
04 Nov 2010
First published
29 Nov 2010

Lab Chip, 2011,11, 743-747

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K. W. Bong, S. C. Chapin, D. C. Pregibon, D. Baah, T. M. Floyd-Smith and P. S. Doyle, Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 743 DOI: 10.1039/C0LC00303D

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