NDLI: Long-term behavior of nonionic surfactant-added PDMS for self-driven microchips

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Author	Madadi, Hojjat Casals Terré, Jasmina
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	The outstanding characteristics of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) owe its extensive use to the fact that it is a base material for the microfluidic devices manufacturers’. In spite of favorable physical and chemical properties, the hydrophobic surface of PDMS is a handicap when pumping aqueous solutions through microchannels using only capillary forces. There are several techniques to achieve a hydrophilic behavior of PDMS, but most of them face the problem of hydrophobic recovery after a short period of time while most commercial microdevices require long storage and distribution times. The use of surfactant-added PDMS provides a novel method to overcome hydrophobicity and to control the hydrophobic recovery over a long period of time. There are many different types of surfactants and not a deep methodology to choose one in terms of efficiency, clearance and duration of the hydrophilic behavior. This paper has compared three non-ionic surfactants with different critical micelle concentration and chemical composition: Triton X-100, Brij 35 and Tween 20. Short and long-term studies were done using 5-μL deionized water droplet on the surface of the prepared surfactant-added PDMS. The experiments demonstrated that Triton X-100 is more efficient than Brij 35 and Tween 20 since with less concentration it achieves a maximum contact angle of around 23.5°. In terms of hydrophobic recovery, the experiments showed that using surfactants and controlling humidity of samples, hydrophobic recovery of the surfactant-added PDMS was negligible after 2 months. According to these results, the use of PDMS with Triton X-100 and Brij 35 provides a good potential for building capillary driven devices without the need of tedious preprocessing techniques.
Starting Page	143
Ending Page	150
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09467076
Journal	Microsystem Technologies
Volume Number	19
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	14321858
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publisher Date	2012-08-10
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation Nanotechnology Mechanical Engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Condensed Matter Physics Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Electrical and Electronic Engineering Hardware and Architecture

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