Photocurable perfluoropolyethers for use as novel materials in microfluidic devices
AssigneesCalifornia Institute of Technology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
InventorsJoseph M. DeSimone, Jason P. Rolland, Stephen R. Quake, Derek A. Schorzman, Jason Yarbrough, Michael Van Dam
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Abstract
A functionalized photocurable perfluoropolyether is used as a material for fabricating a solvent-resistant microfluidic device. Such solvent-resistant microfluidic devices can be used to control the flow of small amounts of a fluid, such as an organic solvent, and to perform microscale chemical reactions that are not amenable to other polymer-based microfluidic devices.
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A layer of photocured perfluoropolyether comprising a patterned surface layer, wherein said patterned surface layer defines a plurality of chambers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.