You can try Upchurch Scientific for inlet and outlet ports and tubing.

Debjyoti Banerjee, Ph.D.
Microfluidics Engineer
NanoInk, Inc.
215 E. Hacienda Avenue
Campbell, CA 95008.
Ph: (408) 379-9069 x202
Fax: (408) 379-9072
Email: [email protected]
www.nanoink.net


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Vishwanath
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 7:23 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [mems-talk] reg: microchannel fabrication



Hi all,I was trying to do some flow visualization experiments using PIV
on a microchannel made out of PDMS. I am hexane as the fluid to pass
through the microchannel and I found that hexane doesn't like the
microchannel made out of PDMS. So, I put a piece of the channel in
hexane and left it overnight to see that the PDMS piece had swollen to
almost twice its original size. I am now looking for other ways of
making microchannel. One idea that my advisor gave me was to arrange
very fine glass chip on left and right side of a glass slide and glue
them with a substance which glues only under UV source. By arranging the
glass chips on the left and right end of the the glass slide, I get a
channel formed at the center. Now, I cover it with another channel and
hence have a crude microchannel. I use tubing for the inlet and outlet
of the microchannel. With this background, I have two questions for
which I need suggestions. 1) Is there any websource or literature as to
how to make the channels using these glass chips?2)How to I place the
inlet and outlet tubing to this microchannel. Thanks very much in
advance, Vishwa

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