Anyone attending microtas this year?

[Dieter]

I'm poking around the posters and am wondering if any other community science type folks are in attendance. Come out and talk about microfluidics.

Dieter

[John Griessen]

On 10/28/2014 10:53 AM, Dieter wrote:
> am wondering if any other community science type folks are in attendance. Come out and talk about microfluidics.

Am not affording it this year, even though it is 90 miles away and I have a
place to stay there...

Paper based microfluidics sounds great. Please see what you can find out about access
to the proceedings. The U. of Texas will likely buy it when ready and I can read it there.
The workshops sound like all are in the early phases of an industry/product life cycle
-- just right for jumping in.

and then there's " workshop seeks to de
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mystify inertial microfluidic phenomena using a combination of live
demos and an open
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source computational tool. "

I've thought up pumps that would be using inertia and be valveless:

http://www.ecosensory.com/diybio/glass_diaphragm_peri_pump-1.gif
http://www.ecosensory.com/diybio/glass_diaphragm_peri_pump-2.gif

[Nathan McCorkle]

It looks to me that the majority of those designs is valves... 'push
to squirt' is pushing a valve closed... 1,2, and 3 are all individual
valves, this is the basis for macro and micro peristaltic pumps.

Something seemingly just like your #1 model was just patented:
http://www.google.com/patents/US20140079571

[Nathan McCorkle]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Dieter <ddeh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm poking around the posters and am wondering if any other community science type folks are in attendance. Come out and talk about microfluidics.

Wow, I will have to try and plan on going to this next year, I've been
going through the schedule for probably 20 minutes or more and I'm
still only halfway through it. About half or more of the topics that
have caught my eye already have been published on, I even found some
topics published on other conference websites!

http://www.microtas2014.org/program/MicroTAS2014_TechnicalProgram.pdf

[Dieter]

Next year it is in korea. It rotates between the us, asia, and europe every year. I went 3 years ago in Seattle. Lots of the same ideas then, probably from the same groups.

The interesting things for me are the paper and laminate fluidics. Cheap enough that you could be credibly messing around with only a few thousand in outlay, or have access to relatively common equipment.

The moral of the story is that we need to be dumping pdms and glass asap. It will never be commercially manufacturable at extremely low costs.