Digital Microfluidics

Posted by michael on Saturday August 3, 2002 @11:41AM from the lab-on-a-chip dept.

herrd0kt0r writes "A brilliant team of researches at Duke University have been working on digital microfluidics, with potential applications in biotech labs-on-a-chip, optical routers/switches, wavelength division multiplexers and the like. Essentially, this team has developed a solid state device capable of moving very small drops of fluid over very small distances with very little power. From their website they remark that "[m]icrofluidic processing is performed on unit-sized packets of fluid which are transported, stored, mixed, reacted, or analyzed in a discrete manner using a standard set of basic instructions." Their site includes eight .mpgs demonstrating their microfluidics tech in real-time. Be sure to take a gander at this video showing programmable flow of droplets as well as this one showing droplet splitting and formation."

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What to drink? by rcs2 · 2002-08-03 11:51 · Score: 2, Funny

Vodka Martini.... microprocessed, not stirred.

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Down already... by Duncan3 · 2002-08-03 11:53 · Score: 2, Funny

Sure, direct links to .mpg files on slashdot, what the heck were they thinking?

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pardon my ignorance by faeryman · 2002-08-03 11:57 · Score: 3, Funny

Thus a wide range of established chemistries and protocols can be seamlessly transferred to a nanoliter droplet format.

Can it be used for TCP/IP? If so I would like to electrowet those mpegs to my computer. Stupid /. effect..

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Re:Hmmm by slickwillie · 2002-08-03 14:37 · Score: 5, Funny

Maybe it could be used to write your name in yellow on a single snowflake.