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== Final Channel Construction==
To construct these microfluidic channels, we used the technique photolithography. Photolithography is the photopatterning of channels from a mask (drawing of channels in 2D) and is based on the utilization of particular substances (photoresists) that become soluble to particular solvents after being exposed to UV light [1].
To construct these microfluidic channels, we used the technique photolithography. Photolithography is the photopatterning of channels from a mask (drawing of channels in 2D) and is based on the utilization of particular substances (photoresists) that become soluble to particular solvents after being exposed to UV light [1].

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Final Setup and Validation

This page presents description of our final channel design as well as description of its construction, which we did by ourselves. Our final channel is build out of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and constructed with a technique called photolithography. We are also presenting the experiments we did to validate our setup and to show that it can work in practice

Final Channel Design

We present below the design our final microfluidic devices, which we made out of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). The channels below differ between themselves in their dimensions. All of them have a reservoir attached to one end.




Final Channel Construction

To construct these microfluidic channels, we used the technique photolithography. Photolithography is the photopatterning of channels from a mask (drawing of channels in 2D) and is based on the utilization of particular substances (photoresists) that become soluble to particular solvents after being exposed to UV light [1].



You can see below some photos of the channel building process:



References: [1] http://www.elveflow.com/microfluidic/16-start-with-microfluidics


Setup Validation

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We checked whether our designed works by putting an engineered cells that produce GFP upon arabinose induction in agarose and filling the channel with it. In the reservoir we put arabinose in ____________ ?? After _____?? we optained a nice arabinose-inducible GFP gradient.

Figure 1: Proof of principle, arabinose-inducible GFP gradient created in the microfluidic PDMS devise


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