Nature Communications (May 2022)

Structural colour enhanced microfluidics

  • Detao Qin,
  • Andrew H. Gibbons,
  • Masateru M. Ito,
  • Sangamithirai Subramanian Parimalam,
  • Handong Jiang,
  • H. Enis Karahan,
  • Behnam Ghalei,
  • Daisuke Yamaguchi,
  • Ganesh N. Pandian,
  • Easan Sivaniah

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29956-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Organized microfibrillation can be used to optically printing well-defined porosity with high resolution into thin polymer films. Here, the authors use this method to create self-enclosed microfluidic devices in different flexible substrates and exploit the intrinsic appearance of structural colours for sensing application