Characterizing the Hot Embossing Process of Microchannels for Polymer Capillary Electrophoresis Chips by Experiment and Numerical Simulation

Author

Wen, Weili ; Zuo, Chuncheng ; Yu, Jianqun ; Liu, Junshan ; Zhang, Xuejun

Author_Institution

Coll. of the Sci. & Eng., Jilin Univ., Changchun

Volume

2

fYear

0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

8383

Lastpage

8387

Abstract

A polymer capillary electrophoresis chip is a novel kind of miniaturized device for biochemistry analysis. In this paper, a polymer micro hot embossing process is characterized by experiment and numerical simulation, a series of experiments were carried out with varied process conditions, including processing pressure, temperature and time, both the height and width of hot-embossed microchannel was investigated. Furthermore, a numerical simulation was developed to understand the mechanism of the hot-embossing process. Simulation results conform to related experiments. Based on these, a novel process of hot embossing is proposed, which lays the foundation for basic theories and techniques of structural design and manufactures of the polymer microchip

Keywords

biochemistry; electrophoresis; embossing; microfluidics; polymers; biochemistry analysis; biochips; hot-embossed microchannel; microfluidic chips; miniaturized device; numerical simulation; polymer capillary electrophoresis chips; polymer microchip; polymer microhot embossing process; processing pressure; processing temperature; processing time; Agricultural engineering; Biochemistry; Biology; Educational institutions; Electrokinetics; Embossing; Mechanical engineering; Microchannel; Numerical simulation; Polymers; μ-TAS; biochips; capillary electrophoresis chips; hot embossing; microfluidic chips; numerical simulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Control and Automation, 2006. WCICA 2006. The Sixth World Congress on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0332-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCICA.2006.1713612

Filename

1713612