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thinXXS Construction!Kit

With our microfluidic construction!kit you will significantly accelerate the development of your own Lab-on-a-Chip products. The modular concept and the basic platform technology allow

  • economical access to the fields of microfluidics,
  • to test fluidic single functions and parameter studies,
  • to generate complete protocols and
  • to develop and verify your product specifications.

The Construction!Kit's components are based on typical laboratory standards: the assembly platform has the size of a microplate, the modules that of a microscope slide. Up to four modules may be combined with each other in one such platform.

All slides are made of cyclo-olefin coplymer (COC), which combines good optical properties with biocompatibility and good chemical resistance to most acids and bases. A set of connectors is available which allows to connect standard tubes or typical laboratory tools such as pipettes or syringes to the fluid ports on top of the slide.

The Microfluidic Construction!Kit - a quick access

The Construction!Kit includes a platform to combine different slides, several SnakeMixer and MicroSplitter slides, a TwinPump slide as well as the electronic control unit. A variety of connectors allow to flexibly interconnect the modules (e.g. for pumping or mixing) or to link them to outside equipment. The ensuing microfluidic system can now be tested and consecutively improved by replacing a given element by a better suited one.

The components of the Construction!Kits in detail

 

SnakeMix Slide
SnakeMix Slides are passive flow-through mixers made of plastic, which intermix smallest liquid volumes within milliseconds.

A total of four mixers with varying channel dimensions are integrated on a microscope slide thus covering a wide range of potentially interesting flow rates or viscosities.

The mixing principle is quite simple: above a critical flow velocity a succession of serpentines leads to eddies. As a consequence, the two liquid streams interpenetrate and mix after a short distance. Due to its characteristic channel structure, this product was named Snake-Mixer. The Snake-Mixer can easily be customized and produced in large numbers.

MicroSplit Slide
MicroSplit Slides of thinXXS allow to split a fluid stream into up to eight substreams.

TwinPump Slide
The thinXXS TwinPump Slide combines two of our micropumps. This combination allows to pump two fluids independently, yet silmutaneously.

That doubled pump function is especially advantageous in combination with our SnakeMix or MicroSplit Slides.

The flow rate of each pump is controlled by the frequency of the piezo actuator. To this end the twin pump slide is distributed in conjunction with a specially adapted electronic control unit, the EDP0704.

 

Electronic control unit EDP 0704
The EDP 0704 is especially designed for our TwinPump Slide. It allows to pump two fluids independently, yet silmutaneously.

Accessories
There are different kind of accessoires* available: a platform to assemble the slides as well as various fluidic connectors and plugs.

*the slide connector set which is described in the product sheet is only available as an accessory. It's not a part of the Microfluidic Construction!Kit.

 

Of course you call re-order all components of our Construction!Kit in various quantity units as accessories.

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