Corning Relationship

Shrink’s Shrink Chip subsidiary will soon offer commercial and academic researchers Corning’s complete SmartBuild Plug-n-Play Modular Microfluidic System that comprises of a motherboard, fitting components, microchannel inserts with different configurations, modules with different functionalities including detection, heating and pumping, and a printed circuit board with integrated pin connectors, and ribbon cable and fiber optic connectors for system control, data collection and detection.

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2D Assembly onto Motherboard with Testing

Po Ki Yuen from Corning Incorporated, demonstrates how to use Corning’s Multidimensional Modular Microfluidic System. A motherboard loaded with multiple layers of pins and microchannel inserts is placed onto an electrical motherboard. A micropump is then connected which pushes the fluid through the microchannel inserts.

2D Assembly with Testing

A demonstration on assembly and testing of Planar concentration gradient generator and fluid being pushed through the devises microchannels

3D Pyramid with Testing

A demonstration of assembly and disassembly of 3D concentration gradient generator along with a short demonstration of fluid being pushed through the microchannels from top to bottom of assembled chips

Various examples of testing Corning’s microfuidic system including, standard configuration with a portable micropump, combination of planar and 3D configuration, configuration without a motherboard, 3D without a motherboard, and combination vertical and planar without motherboard.