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The planar structure of our laminate devices and the use of room temperature bonding, PCR compatible, and solvent resistant medical grade adhesives offer flexible interfaces to glass microscope slides, injection molded fluid interfaces, or optical or electrochemical sensors.
Working with clients, we have developed devices in which we provided laser patterned electrodes of ITO or Au on plastic or glass.
A variety of solutions have been developed and include:
- Flow cells for cell or particle separation
- complex fluid paths containing channels as thin as 50 microns tall, and 125 microns wide
- manifolds and flow paths which attach conveniently to glass slides.
To learn more about the capability of our fabrication platform, visit the technical articles pages which can be accessed here
We can help you determine the best prototyping approach for your application. Please fill out our Custom development questionnaire to help us guide you to the right fluid solution for your application.
ALine has provided complete fluidic assemblies with interfaces to electrodes and optical sensors, such as SPR, in support of a variety of client projects. We are happy to support SBIR proposals and can provide confidential engineering, materials, and scientific support for your program.
Contact our engineering experts for more information.
The photo here demonstrates three examples of prototypes for very different applications. One is a channel for electrophoretic separations in which ALine fabricated carbon based electrodes that were printed onto the plastic devices. The other devices are for applications where a fluid interface is required to a glass slide or to a sensor in a field portable platform.
In the example here, the clear device with its bifurcated channel network has fluid control provided by on-board pneumatic valves. To learn more about ALine’s valve technology click here.
Using our polymer laminate technology we have made devices with channels that are 50 microns tall and 125 microns wide with complex channel shapes as shown in the manifold here on the right.
In other custom prototyping, ALine worked to develop complex fluid channels to test different fluid circuit designs as an alternative to prototyping injection molded channels.
