The Design and Fabrication of Autonomous Polymer-based Surface Tension-confined Microfluidic Platforms
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......................................................................................................................................... x Chapter 1: Introduction to Capillary Driven Microfluidics ..................................................... 1 1.1 Surface Tension-Confined Microfluidics ........................................................................ 1 1.2 Capillary-Driven Microfluidic Physics ........................................................................... 3 1.3 Fabrication of Surface tension-confined Platforms ......................................................... 8 1.3.1 Wetting Mediation through Chemical Patterning ............................................... 8 1.3.2 Curvature Modulation via Topographical Manipulation .................................. 16 1.3.3 Flow Modulation Techniques ........................................................................... 19 1.4 Key Findings and Future Directions ............................................................................. 21 1.5 References ..................................................................................................................... 24 Chapter 2: Fundamentals of Flow in a Microfluidic Regime ................................................. 27 2.1 Surface Tension and Surface Free Energy .................................................................... 27 2.2 Surface Tension Dependency on System Properties ..................................................... 27 2.2.1 Surface tension expansion via contact angle .......................................................... 28 2.2.2 Surface tension dependency on area per volume ................................................... 30 2.2.3 Thermal influence on surface tension ............................................................... 37 2.2.4 Surface tension versus pressure ........................................................................ 39
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