[mems-talk] RE: Micro-dispenser

[Charmet Jérôme]

Hi, 

I am looking to print various types of liquids to realise microfluidics structures (channels). I first thought about using a conventional inkjet printer however it is not possible to control the volume of fluid dispensed and it will not work with viscous liquids. The other solution would be to use a versatile micro array printer (such as the one I found at www.gesim.de) but in this case it will only print droplets (of course you can have the droplets to overlap so that in the end you obtain a channel..) however this piece of equipment is not appropriate to print channels as you have to program the coordinates of each drop you want to print. 

Would anyone know of a system that would work like a "normal" inkjet printer and that would allow me to print microfluidics channels on various flat substrates?

Thanks very much,


Jérôme