Microfluidic Chips Made With Shrinky Dinks

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 4, 2007 @08:38AM from the improvising-science dept.

SoyChemist writes "When she started her job as a new professor at UC Merced, Michelle Khine was stuck without a clean room or semiconductor fabrication equipment, so she went MacGyver and started making Lab-on-a-Chip devices in her kitchen with Shrinky Dinks, a laser printer, and a toaster oven. She would print a negative image of the channels onto the polystyrene sheets and then shrink them with heat. The miniaturized pattern served as a perfect mold for forming rounded, narrow channels in PDMS — a clear, synthetic rubber."

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Re:Somethings tapping at the back of her head by spun · 2007-12-04 08:51 · Score: 0, Troll

Are you still bitter about being a virgin?

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Re:learn to fucking read by c0ck_l0rge · 2007-12-04 10:03 · Score: 0, Troll

Your sig indicates that you dislike the content on the /. Why come here everyday only to get pissed off at the site time and time again? Don't be a playa-hater! Hate the game.

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