Issue 10, 2012
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Lab on a Chip

Scanning laser pulses driven microfluidic peristaltic membrane pump

Yue Chen,*a   Ting-Hsiang Wuab  and  Pei-Yu Chiou*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), 43-147 Eng. IV, 420 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, USA
E-mail: pychiou@seas.ucla.edu, katechen@ucla.edu
Fax: +1-310-206-4830
Tel: +1-310-825-8620

b Department of Pathology and Pediatrics, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA
E-mail: tsw2008@ucla.edu

Abstract

We reported a pulsed laser driven peristaltic pump for driving fluid in multilayer polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microchannels. By synchronizing the dynamics of deforming membrane valves with pulsed laser generated bubbles, a maximum pumping rate of 460 pl sāˆ’1 has been achieved.

Graphical abstract: Scanning laser pulses driven microfluidic peristaltic membrane pump

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2LC40079K
Article type
Technical Innovation
Submitted
19 Jan 2012
Accepted
27 Feb 2012
First published
06 Mar 2012

Lab Chip, 2012,12, 1771-1774

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Scanning laser pulses driven microfluidic peristaltic membrane pump

Y. Chen, T. Wu and P. Chiou, Lab Chip, 2012, 12, 1771 DOI: 10.1039/C2LC40079K

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