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Microfluidic Channels of adjustable height using deformable elastomer

Dandara Valesco Anez
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Céline Hadji
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Enric Santanach Carreras
Élise Lorenceau

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In the emerging field of deformable microfluidics, we propose a new geometry in which the height and angle of a channel is controlled thanks to the deformability of the microfluidic elastomer down to thicknesses of a few microns. The particularity of our set-up is that the height of the channel under study is fully closed at rest, which reveals especially well suited to address micro-nanoconfinement problems such as clogging, transport selectivity and flow rectification. Using fluorescence microscopy and light absorption, we probe the channel shape from the measurement of the PDMS-displacement field. We demonstrate that the maximal PDMS-displacement can be inferred from finite elements numerical simulations and predicted reliably with simple analytical relations from elasticity continuum mechanics.
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hal-03128128 , version 1 (02-02-2021)

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Dandara Valesco Anez, Céline Hadji, Enric Santanach Carreras, Élise Lorenceau, Cyril Picard. Microfluidic Channels of adjustable height using deformable elastomer. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 2021, ⟨10.1007/s10404-020-02408-5⟩. ⟨hal-03128128⟩

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