3D printing microfluidics
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: December 11, 2022
We have another busy week of webinars and events for you, starting with ASTM International’s AM Safety Certificate Course. Velo3D continues its roadshow, and HP is holding a virtual tour,…
Phase Gets Grant to Make Microfluidic Devices
I’m fascinated by microfluidics. With microfluidics, you could mix, deposit, separate, or reroute tiny amounts of liquids at specific moments. Think of a 3D printer depositing a millionth of a…
HP’s Innovation Summit: Empowering 3D Printing Amid Growing Business Demand
HP’s first global Innovation Summit gathered company leaders and industry experts to discuss current and future trends in digital manufacturing. Underpinning the event was also a new HP global study…
US Army and Researchers 3D Print Microfluidic Channels on Curved Surface in an Open Lab
The field of microfluidics continues to grow as it’s used in a variety of applications: tissue engineering, drug screening and delivery, sensors, bioprinting, and more. Microfluidics involves manipulating and controlling…
Tuning 3D Printed Flexible Materials with Microfluidics Droplet System
As the name suggests, microfluidics is centered around the behavior, manipulation, and control of fluids that have been constrained to a very small scale. Obviously, accurate handling is of the…
Montana State University Achieves Low-Cost Microfluidics Sensor with 3D Printing
I had the pleasure of touring Montana State University last year around Thanksgiving, as my son was accepted there. The geography is breathtaking (Montana, not surprising) and so was the…
3D Printed Microfluidics for Silver Clay Extrusion
Emmanuel Segura-Cárdenas (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Escuela de Ingenieria y Ciencias) and Luis Fernando Velásquez-García (MIT) detail the results of a recent study in ‘Additively Manufactured Robust Microfluidics via Silver Clay…
OIST Researchers Create 3D Printed Modular Microfluidic Prototype for Point-of-Care Testing
Common on-site water quality test kits and at-home infection disease tests typically require the user to do all of the work – collect fluid samples, measure and mix reagents, perform…
China: Researchers Test 3D Printed Modular Microfluidic Systems
Chinese researchers from the School of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering at Lingnan Normal University are examining ways to improve the use of microfluidics, outlining their research in the recently published…
Researchers Tackle Fluid Flow Issues 3D Printing Microfluidics Platform
In ‘Microfluidics as a Platform for the Analysis of 3D Printing Problems,’ authors Rui Mendes, Paola Fanzio, Laura Campo-Deaño, and Francisco J. Galindo-Rosales explore new ways to tackle ongoing issues…
Analyzing & Solving 3D Printing Issues with Microfluidics
In the recently published ‘Microfluidics as a Platform for the Analysis of 3D Printing Problems,’ by Rui Mendes, Paola Fanzio, Laura Campo-Deaño, and Francisco J. Galindo-Rosales, the authors explore FFF…
Bioprinting 101 – Part 16, Microfluidics
Microfluidic Process We have previously mentioned the topic of microfluidics within this series of articles. Microfluidics deals with the behavior, precise control, and manipulation of fluids that are geometrically constrained…
Polyjet 3D Printing Used to Make PDMS Molds for Sliding Trapper Microfluidics Design Concept
Microfluidics, which often crosses paths these days with 3D printing, deals with manipulating and controlling the flow of fluids in tiny channels, often on the sub-millimeter scale. Many microfluidic devices have…
Paul Benning Chief Technologist 3D Printing at HP Predicts 3D Printing Developments in 2019
Paul Benning is the 3D Print and Microfluidics Chief Technologist at HP. Before that he was an HP Fellow and the Chief Technologist of their imaging and printing division. He’s…
FEMTOPrint’s Technology Used to Help Produce 3D Printed Glass Molds for Droplet Microfluidic Chips
Swiss high-tech company FEMTOprint, dedicated to contract manufacturing of 3D printed microdevices in glass and other transparent materials, worked with Galatea Lab, Instant Lab and the Jules-Gonin Ophthalmic Hospital this past winter to explore how 3D…
Carbon Helps Vitamix Design a Juicy New 3D Printed Nozzle for Its Commercial Blender Line
Last month at the Advanced Design & Manufacturing Expo (ADM Expo) in Cleveland, a major case study between Carbon, The Technology House (TTH), and Vitamix was announced that showcases how 3D printing can…
Sculpteo Partnering with Fluigent on Horizon 2020-Funded 3D Printing Microfluidics Research Project
The European Commission’s Horizon 2020 framework is the biggest Research and Innovation program ever launched by the EU. With almost €80 billion of available funding until the year 2020, the program…
Researchers Devise 3D Printing Method for Cost-Effective Preparation of Biochips
Microfluidics is the backbone of important research in clinical diagnostics, drug discovery, health care, and medicine. However, in the area of biology, 3D printed microfluidics platforms, which are essentially small-scale…
BYU Researchers Create First 3D Printed Microfluidic Device Effective Below 100 Micrometers
It’s possible to use 3D printing to create microfluidic devices, which are tiny ‘lab on a chip’ tools that use microscopic channels to work out small structures like cells and…
3D Bioprinted Liver Tissue Constructs Used to Develop More Accurate Drug Toxicity Testing System
While many think that bioprinting means that we’ll soon be able to 3D print a brand new organ with the touch of a button, that’s not the case quite yet….
Researchers 3D Print Microfluidic Blood Vessel Model to Study Disease-Causing Blood Clots
We’ve seen 3D printed blood vessels before – even an entire functioning network of them that was surviving in mice – but researchers in the Netherlands who are working with…
Professor of Microfluidics Discusses 3D Printing Benefits and Possible Future Improvements with Ultimaker
A lab-on-a-chip is pretty self-explanatory: it’s a miniature laboratory that is printed onto a microchip. But for the past 25 years, Professor David Barrow of Cardiff University in Wales has studied microfluidics, which…
UCI Researchers Introduce 3D Printed Microfluidics Platform
A few weeks ago, researchers from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, introduced a paper focusing on an innovative Lego-based modular microfluidics platform designed with…
