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Recorded Passive Capillary Flow of Aqueous Ethanol in the Fabricated SU-8 based Glass Microfluidic Device for Commercial Applications

Subhadeep Mukhopadhyay

Abstract


A single SU-8 based glass microfluidic device is fabricated by the maskless lithography and indirect bonding technique. Aqueous ethanol (85% dyed water, 15% ethanol) is prepared as the working liquid. The CMOS camera catching 25 frames per second is used to record the surface-driven microfluidic flow of working liquid. In future, this work will be useful to fabricate the SU-8 based lab-on-a-chip systems for microfluidic bioengineering applications.

Keywords: SU-8, Ethanol, Capillary flow, Microfluidic device

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