Issue 2, 2009
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Lab on a Chip

On-demand microfluidic control by micropatterned light irradiation of a photoresponsive hydrogel sheet†

Shinji Sugiura,‡a   András Szilágyi,‡ab   Kimio Sumaru,*a   Koji Hattori,a   Toshiyuki Takagi,a   Genovéva Filipcsei,c   Miklós Zrínyib  and  Toshiyuki Kanamoria  

* Corresponding authors

a Research Center of Advanced Bionics, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Central 5th, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
E-mail: k.sumaru@aist.go.jp
Fax: +81-861-6278

b Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

c Materials Structure and Modeling Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

Abstract

Novel on-chip fluid control strategies, on-demand formation of arbitrary microchannels and parallel control of multiple microvalves were successfully demonstrated by means of computer-controlled micropatterned light irradiation of a photoresponsive hydrogel sheet.

Graphical abstract: On-demand microfluidic control by micropatterned light irradiation of a photoresponsive hydrogel sheet

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B810717C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
25 Jun 2008
Accepted
31 Oct 2008
First published
17 Nov 2008

Lab Chip, 2009,9, 196-198

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On-demand microfluidic control by micropatterned light irradiation of a photoresponsive hydrogel sheet

S. Sugiura, A. Szilágyi, K. Sumaru, K. Hattori, T. Takagi, G. Filipcsei, M. Zrínyi and T. Kanamori, Lab Chip, 2009, 9, 196 DOI: 10.1039/B810717C

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