Fabrication and experiment of a hydrophilic micromixer using optically clear adhesive tape

摘要

Micromixer has been drawing upon various branches of engineering science and allied areas within biology and biomedicine. In this article, an easy and fast fabrication method on hydrophilic micromixer using optically clear adhesive (OCA) double-sided tape together with glass is proposed. Different experiments on types of planar hydrophilic micormixers with baffle structures are designed for hydrophillic microchannel. Flow is driven by capillary action using surface tension and flow tests are carried out to show that the double-sided OCA tape-glass micromixer can achieve the mixing result of 71 % in gray level image analysis.