TY - GEN
T1 - Open/close valve for extended-nanochannel by glass deformation
AU - Kazoe, Y.
AU - Ohyama, T.
AU - Pihosh, Y.
AU - Mawatari, K.
AU - Kitamori, T.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by Japan Science and Technology Agency, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology.
Publisher Copyright:
© 15CBMS-0001.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - We report a novel open/close fluidic valve for nanochannels, exploiting smallness of extended nanospace (10-1000 nm) and tiny glass deformation. The working principle using deformation of rigid glass to open/close 100 nm channels, which has been difficult in conventional microchannels, was verified for the first time. This extended-nano fluidic valve without embedding any MEMS structure is a breakthrough in sophisticated fluidic control such as switching channels and integration of various unit operations (mixing, reaction, separation, etc.) to develop highly-integrated nanofluidic devices for various fields such as biology and energy engineering.
AB - We report a novel open/close fluidic valve for nanochannels, exploiting smallness of extended nanospace (10-1000 nm) and tiny glass deformation. The working principle using deformation of rigid glass to open/close 100 nm channels, which has been difficult in conventional microchannels, was verified for the first time. This extended-nano fluidic valve without embedding any MEMS structure is a breakthrough in sophisticated fluidic control such as switching channels and integration of various unit operations (mixing, reaction, separation, etc.) to develop highly-integrated nanofluidic devices for various fields such as biology and energy engineering.
KW - Glass deformation
KW - Nanofluidics
KW - Valve
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84983372246
T3 - MicroTAS 2015 - 19th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences
SP - 1513
EP - 1515
BT - MicroTAS 2015 - 19th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences
PB - Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society
T2 - 19th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2015
Y2 - 25 October 2015 through 29 October 2015
ER -