Reconfigurable Microfluidic Channel with Pin-discretized SidewallsNobuyuki Futai 1, Kenji Fujita 1, Wataru Ikuta 1
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology
A microfluidic channel with deformable sidewalls offers flow control, particle handling, channel dimension customization and other reconfigurations while in use. We describe a method for fabricating a microfluidic channel with sidewalls made of an array of pins that allows their shape to change.
