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Centrifugation-Assisted Three-Dimensional Printing of Devices Embedded with Fully Enclosed Microchannels
Chia‐Heng Chu, Enerelt Burentugs, Dohwan Lee, Jacob M. Owens, Ruxiu Liu, A. Bruno Frazier, A. Fatih Sarioglu
IF 2.13D Printing and Additive Manufacturing
초록

The challenges in reliably removing the sacrificial material from fully enclosed microfluidic channels hinder the use of three-dimensional (3D) printing to create microfluidic devices with intricate geometries. With advances in printer resolution, the etching of sacrificial materials from increasingly smaller channels is poised to be a bottleneck using the existing techniques. In this study, we introduce a microfabrication approach that utilizes centrifugation to effortlessly and efficiently remove the sacrificial materials from 3D-printed microfluidic devices with densely packed microfeatures. We characterize the process by measuring the etch rate under different centrifugal forces and developed a theoretical model to estimate process parameters for a given geometry. The effect of the device layout on the centrifugal etching process is also investigated. We demonstrate the applicability of our approach on devices fabricated using inkjet 3D printing and stereolithography. Finally, the advantages of the introduced approach over commonly used injection-based etching of sacrificial material are experimentally demonstrated in direct comparisons. A robust method to postprocess additively manufactured geometries composed of intricate microfluidic channels can help utilize both the large printing volume and high spatial resolution afforded by 3D printing in creating a variety of devices ranging from scaffolds to large-scale microfluidic assays.

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MicrofluidicsMicrofabricationStereolithography3D printingMaterials scienceNanotechnologyEtching (microfabrication)Process (computing)MicrotechnologyBottleneck
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2.1 / 1
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2022

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