Cooksey, G.
and Plant, A.
(2009),
Controlling the Flow Rate of Many Fluids With Floating Vials In a Pressurizeable Container, The Proceedings of the MicroTas 2009 Conference, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=903413
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Controlling the Flow Rate of Many Fluids With Floating Vials In a Pressurizeable Container
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We report a simple strategy to control the pressure-driven flow rates from fluid reservoirs to a microchip in an efficient and compact fashion. We demonstrate that using a floating reservoir, less than 1 percent change in flow rate per ml of delivered volume can be achieved with gravity-driven flow, which is more than 20-fold improvement over a non-floating reservoir. Using this principle, we fabricated a 19-reservoir system to supply fluids to a multi-inlet microfluidic device.Citation
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