{"id":178039,"date":"2023-12-11T13:23:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T19:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/scientists-3d-print-self-heating-microfluidic-devices"},"modified":"2023-12-11T13:23:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T19:23:27","slug":"scientists-3d-print-self-heating-microfluidic-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/scientists-3d-print-self-heating-microfluidic-devices","title":{"rendered":"Scientists 3D print self-heating microfluidic devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-3d-print-self-heating-microfluidic-devices2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MIT researchers have used 3D printing to produce self-heating microfluidic devices, demonstrating a technique which could someday be used to rapidly create cheap, yet accurate, tools to detect a host of diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Microfluidics, miniaturized machines that manipulate fluids and facilitate <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/chemical+reactions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical reactions<\/a>, can be used to detect disease in tiny samples of blood or fluids. At-home test kits for COVID-19, for example, incorporate a simple type of microfluidic.<\/p>\n<p>But many microfluidic applications require chemical reactions that must be performed at specific temperatures. These more complex <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/microfluidic+devices\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">microfluidic devices<\/a>, which are typically manufactured in a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/clean+room\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">clean room<\/a>, are outfitted with heating elements made from gold or platinum using a complicated and expensive fabrication process that is difficult to scale up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT researchers have used 3D printing to produce self-heating microfluidic devices, demonstrating a technique which could someday be used to rapidly create cheap, yet accurate, tools to detect a host of diseases. Microfluidics, miniaturized machines that manipulate fluids and facilitate chemical reactions, can be used to detect disease in tiny samples of blood or fluids. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178039","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}