By Cnr Ifn
Our group develops advanced fs-laser based fabrication solutions for rapid prototyping of polymeric microfluidic devices, with high degrees of precision and flexibility, from the design (CAD) to the proof-of concept application. The fabrication procedures are mainly based on fs-laser micromachining technique also possibly combined with other techniques, without the need for the expensive masks and complex facilities. The lab-on-a-chip (LoC) devices are mainly realized in polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), a low cost and biocompatible material, joined to other polymers, metals or silicon. The power of miniaturization of fs-laser technology is exploited to create revolutionary microfluidic lab-on-chip devices uniquely suited to sense and manipulate particles, allowing us to solve current problems in health and medicine.
