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Journal Article
Enabling Microfluidics: from Clean Rooms to Makerspaces
2017
Overview
The traditional requirement for clean rooms and specialized skills has inhibited many biologists from pursuing new microfluidic innovations. Makerspaces provide a growing alternative to clean rooms: they provide low-cost access to fabrication equipment such as laser cutters, plotter cutters, and 3D printers; use commercially available materials; and attract a diverse community of product designers. This Opinion discusses the materials, tools, and building methodologies particularly suited for developing novel microfluidic devices in these spaces, with insight into biological applications and leveraging the maker community. The lower barrier to access of makerspaces ameliorates the otherwise poor accessibility and scalability of microfluidic prototyping.
The use of simple tools and materials to manufacture microfluidic devices provides an opportunity for makerspaces to serve as a hotbed for microfluidic device development.
Materials such as plastic, adhesive, and paper, along with tools such as plotter/laser cutters and 3D printers, enable building integrated microfluidic systems that are more easily translated to large-scale manufacturing.
Makerspaces provide low-cost access to prototyping tools and access to technically diverse human capital, and they enable those without advanced skills to participate in microfluidic device development.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd,Elsevier Limited
Subject
/ Biology
/ Biotechnology - instrumentation
/ Biotechnology - organization & administration
/ Cutters
/ Equipment Failure Analysis - methods
/ Facility Design and Construction - methods
/ Lasers
/ Methods
/ Microfluidics - instrumentation
/ Microfluidics - organization & administration
/ Plastics
/ Polymers
/ printers
