Anyway, I do wonder about the feasibility of microfluidics in general. It's become quite popular in recent years (hey, Theranos' whole thing was actually microfluidics!!), but I find lack of blowout successes riding on microfluidics to be something of a concern. I don't know if whether that's because actually delivering with a microfluidics chip takes so much resources that any lab taking on a microfluidics project will then be robbed of resources to work on anything else, or if because orchestrating a dance of small quantities of fluids traversing elaborate pathways here and there at controlled rates, measuring quantities and setting up open feedback loop systems and setting up logic systems is just so hard and that's why I don't hear about happy reportings.
What type of epoxy do you use? I imagine depositing the epoxy in micro-doses must take a steady hand.
Your approach is great for its simplicity. Can you comment on the biocompatibility of the cured resin? Good enough to culture cells in?
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They are stupid expensive but usually work well. An alternative is to use a biopsy punch in PDMS and simply shove a 1.6mm tube into the resulting hole. The PDMS will hold the tube securely at most pressures.
Also, wowza, it pains me to see non-metric units used there. One would have thought that fields that are so deeply academic in nature would be free of imperial units!
edit: there is download pdf option
Why do people need to constantly reinvent presentation formats? Literally nobody wants this, it only makes the information harder to view.
This is like a bad flashback to flash Nature is going into the dns blackhole.
