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Published in final edited form as: Anal Chem. 2013 Dec 13;86(1):95–118. doi: 10.1021/ac403688g

Figure 1.

Figure 1

(a) Innovative fabrication methods and materials. (a) The production of self-rolled PDMS microcapillaries. The rolling process and a SEM image are shown. Reprinted with permission from Chia, G. L. P.; Bollgruen, P.; Egunov, A. I.; Mager, D.; Malloggi, F.; Korvink, J. G.; Luchnikov, V. A. Lab Chip 2013, 13, 3827-3831. Copyright 2013 The Royal Society of Chemistry. (b) COC device fabrication procedure uses a wet-erase pen to define a channel pattern on a COC chip followed by swelling and solvent bonding. SEM image shows the cross-section of a sealed microchannel. Reprinted with permission from Rahmanian, O.; DeVoe, D. L. Lab Chip 2013, 13, 1102-1108. Copyright 2013 The Royal Society of Chemistry. (c) The wetting and transport by surface tension driven flow of a 5uL droplet upon micropatterned superhydrophobic textile. Reprinted with permission from Xing, S.; Jiang, J.; Pan, T. Lab Chip 2013, 13, 1937-1947. Copyright 2013 The Royal Society of Chemistry.