How are you interfacing your capillaries at the moment?
As a student I used to bond capillaries into glass chips using
graphite/vesple ferrules and epoxy glue which made a reasonably leak
resistant interface. It does take some practice to get a good connection
though.


Ciro Chiappini wrote:
> Hi
>
> We are trying to develop a microfluidics flow chamber for biological
> application. We require the smallest possible interfaces to the
> microfluidics chip. We are trying with capillary tubes but that presents
> several problems with leaking. We also saw microfluidics ports from
> upchurch
> but their outer diameter is too big (8mm) and doesn't allow us to do
> microscopy. Does anyone know about small interfaces to the microfluidic
> world?