Educational Review on the Applications of Diamond-Like Carbon Films in Fluid Engineering

Subhadeep Mukhopadhyay

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In this present review paper, author has described the applications of diamond-like carbon (DLC) films in microfluidic devices from the point of view of materials-science. According to author’s earlier reports, the speed of surface-driven water flow is varied by the coating of DLC films in PMMA microfluidic devices. Also, according to author’s earlier reports, the speed of surface-driven water flow is varied by the coating of DLC films in SU-8 based glass microfluidic devices. The fabrication and feature of wettability-bump by DLC film is also described to control the surface-driven water flow in SU-8 based glass microfluidic devices. This present review will be helpful to control the surface-driven water flow in microfluidic lab-on-a-chip systems for bioengineering applications. Also, this educational review is authored to consider as the study material for proposed elective-course of Microfluidics (M.Tech, Theory) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Arunachal Pradesh, India.

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