{"id":172299,"date":"2023-09-18T23:23:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T04:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/a-modern-digital-light-processing-technology-to-3d-print-microfluidic-chips"},"modified":"2023-09-18T23:23:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T04:23:02","slug":"a-modern-digital-light-processing-technology-to-3d-print-microfluidic-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/a-modern-digital-light-processing-technology-to-3d-print-microfluidic-chips","title":{"rendered":"A modern digital light processing technology to 3D print microfluidic chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-modern-digital-light-processing-technology-to-3d-print-microfluidic-chips2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conventional manufacturing methods such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/materials-science\/soft-lithography#:~:text=Soft%20lithography%20(also%20known%20as,(using%20a%20composite%20stamp).\">soft lithography<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s005420050112\">hot embossing processes<\/a> can be used to bioengineer microfluidic chips, albeit with limitations, including difficulty in preparing multilayered structures, cost-and labor-consuming fabrication processes as well as low productivity.<\/p>\n<p>Materials scientists have introduced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/engineering\/digital-light-processing\">digital light processing<\/a> as a cost-effective microfabrication approach to 3D print microfluidic chips, although the fabrication resolution of these microchannels are limited to a scale of sub-100 microns.<\/p>\n<p>In a new report published in <i>Microsystems and Nanoengineering<\/i>, Zhuming Luo and a scientific team in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/biomedical+engineering\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">biomedical engineering<\/a>, and chemical engineering in China developed an innovative digital light processing method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conventional manufacturing methods such as soft lithography and hot embossing processes can be used to bioengineer microfluidic chips, albeit with limitations, including difficulty in preparing multilayered structures, cost-and labor-consuming fabrication processes as well as low productivity. Materials scientists have introduced digital light processing as a cost-effective microfabrication approach to 3D print microfluidic chips, although the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1902,11,19,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}