{"id":659212,"date":"2020-06-26T09:50:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T13:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=659212"},"modified":"2020-06-26T09:50:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T13:50:01","slug":"a-rubiks-microfluidic-cube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=659212","title":{"rendered":"A Rubik's microfluidic cube"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scientists have recently engineered a modular system based on the Rubik’s cube to design and reconfigure microfluidic systems. Research teams had previously pursued the arrangement of microfluidic blocks in diverse conformations to suit varied experiments. In this work, Xiaochen Lai and a team of scientists at the Tianjin University in China were inspired by the popular Rubik’s puzzle to build a three-dimensional (3-D) microfluidic system. The setup could be easily twisted and turned to change its function. They mimicked the design of the Rubik’s cube with modular pieces containing microchannel layouts to achieve a tight, leak-proof seal relative to device arrangement. Lai et al. used a single device to perform fluid mixing and droplet-based microbial culture for a range of practical applications as microfluidic sensors, pumps and valves in resource-limited settings. The work is now published on Nature: Microsystems and Microengineering.
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