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Journal of Microelectronics and Solid State Devices

Flow and Filtration of Polystyrene Microparticles in Micron-Scale Fluid Mechanics towards the Applications related to fluidic Microelectromechanical Systems

  1. Subhadeep Mukhopadhyay

Abstract

Maskless lithography, hot embossing lithography and direct bonding technique are useful to fabricate the polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) microfluidic devices. Also, maskless lithography and indirect bonding technique are useful to fabricate the SU-8 based glass microfluidic devices. In this work, a short review on microfluidic flow and microfluidic filtration of microparticles is provided by author related to the micron-scale fluid mechanics. This review may be useful to perform the blood filtration in microfluidic lab-on-a-chip systems. Also, this review may be helpful to fabricate the nanofluidic devices and systems. Liquid-microflow is slower at higher surface-area to volume ratio inside the microchannel. The surface-to-volume ratio is generally very high inside any Nanochannel. Therefore, the Liquid-flow may be stopped before the Nanochannel. Hence, only gas-Nanoflow may happen inside the Nanochannel producing the subject of Nanofluidics. Also, this work may be useful to fabricate the fluidic microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).

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