Workshops

The objective of the Microfluidic Manufacturing project is to bring the manufacturing of microfluidic devices to the same level of maturity as electronic devices, enabling them to address more widely in the healthcare needs. The MFM initiative invites  microfluidic experts to give feedback and to actively participate in further standardization efforts.

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• Delft University of Technology (group Ronald Dekker) with the Cytostretch technology, a universal platform for organ-on-chip applications  (a hDMT member)
• Eindhoven University of Technology (group Jaap den Toonder) with microfluidic devices to understand the various stages in the development of cancer, Cancer-on-a-Chip (a HDMT member)
• University of Twente (group Andries van der Meer) with their technological innovations they have developed in order to more realistically mimic and analyze blood vessels in organs-on-chips (a hDMT member)
• Micronit Microtechnogies with a co-development together with Fluigent that has resulted in a 4-dock Organ-on-a-Chip system with a pump and flow-rate control integrated.
• Denz BIO-Medical offers a wide range of services and production processes for microsystems, bio-microsystems and bio-medical systems. They support customers with their standard chips fabricated out of various materials and for a host of applications.

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• Confocal.nl, will demonstrate their Re-scan Confocal Microscope (RCM) which has an improved resolution and strongly improved sensitivity as compared to most confocal microscopes.
• LioniX develops full optofluidic systems based on their core technology. The miniaturized rotary valve is an essential part of that and the combination with the optofluidic platform of LioniX, based on the silicon nitride technology (TriPleX), yields a very powerful fluidic measurement system. The workshop will show a demonstrator of an optofluidic sensing system with integrated automated fluidic handling.
• PhenomWorld with their Phenom XL desktop scanning electron microscope. No SEM specialist is required to operate the system, basic operations can be taught to anyone within 15 minutes
• TNO will demonstrate a desktop unit for optical biosensing. This unit allows the user to establish a robust multi-channel optical connection to an optical biosensor chip (based on Silicon On Insulator ring resonators) with a flow cell. The user can then perform bio-chemical tests by supplying various liquid samples to the sensor. Any lab analist can learn to work with this unit in 30 minutes, and exchange samples within a few minutes.

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• Dolomite, is specialized in the design and manufacture of high quality innovative microfluidic products and offers a broad range of modular microfluidic systems, modules and components such as pumps, chips, connectors, temperature controllers, sensors, accessories and software for analysis or automation.
• Fluigent develops, manufactures and commercializes innovative fluid handling solutions for a variety of rapidly growing applications where fluid control is critical. Fluigent has delivered MFCS™ (Microfluidic Flow Control Systems) to hundreds of customers worldwide since 2006. During the demo participants will be able to ” draw” the Dutch flag with 3 liquids (co-flow cell) to illustrate the reactivity of pressure pumps.
• Scienion – specialist in the field of small volume dispensing of any biological and chemical substance –will be present with a mid-size arrayer that is used for dispensing ultra-small volumes of liquid in the pico- to nano-liter range. Aim is to use substrates made available by the other demonstrators Dolomite and Fluigent. The audience is welcome to bring their own substrates to dispense on!

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