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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
University of Ulster
Experimental and numerical investigation of capillary flow in SU8 and PDMS microchannels with integrated pillars
This International collaborative project (Waterloo (ISOP) and IIT Mumbai UKIERI British Council) is the first report of a novel integrated pillars (SU8 and PDMS) approach to surface modifying microfluidic channels which leads to a higher fluid velocities due to optimum geometries which were also predicted using a derived modelling and simulation. This work has led to a proof of concept point of care microfluidic device (£500k NSF-US-Irl and £2m DEL Point of Care Projects) and is the basis of trials at Intelesens (M Caulfield +44 (0)84 5838 6243); Randox (J. Lamont +44 (0) 28 9442 2413) and SiSaF (+44 28 9099 8944)