Title:
Design and Evaluation of the Flexible PDMS Microfluidic Diaphragm Pump with Check-Valve

dc.contributor.advisor Sulchek, Todd A.
dc.contributor.author Kim, Soo
dc.contributor.committeeMember Tsyngankov, Denis
dc.contributor.committeeMember Behravesh, Essy
dc.contributor.department Biomedical Engineering (Joint GT/Emory Department)
dc.date.accessioned 2017-10-30T16:47:29Z
dc.date.available 2018-05-01T11:00:30Z
dc.date.created 2017-05
dc.date.issued 2017-05
dc.date.submitted May 2017
dc.date.updated 2017-10-30T16:47:30Z
dc.description.abstract Microfluidic pumps in the field of medicine have several applications, including cell separation, microanalysis array, and drug delivery. Among these applications, the pump’s usage for drug delivery requires flow-in-one-direction. Previous attempts for this used standardized check valve from retail store, but this creates complexity in manufacturing and inconsistency of data acquiring due to the failure of manufacture. This thesis is focused on the design and fabrication of flexible micro check valve that can integrate with PDMS microfluidic pump. Both micro check valve and microfluidic channel were fabricated using replica molding, machining, and standard PDMS mixtures. Then, integrated micro pump was studied with compression test to see the performance relative to the result from pump with standardized check valve. Results indicates that integration of PDMS check valve and microfluidic channel is as effective as the one from previous research but there is room for improvement on overall design for integration. The future successful completion of the integration will serve crucial part of this project and can be further developed for drug delivery
dc.description.degree Undergraduate
dc.embargo.terms 2018-05-01
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/58854
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.subject PDMS
dc.subject Check-valve
dc.subject Molds
dc.title Design and Evaluation of the Flexible PDMS Microfluidic Diaphragm Pump with Check-Valve
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dc.type.genre Undergraduate Thesis
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local.contributor.advisor Sulchek, Todd A.
local.contributor.corporatename Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program
local.contributor.corporatename College of Engineering
local.relation.ispartofseries Undergraduate Research Option Theses
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