A high speed, high fidelity 3D printer for fabricating microfluidic devices

该项目旨在开发一种新型3D打印机，该打印机具有最高的分辨率和最快的打印速度，可用于复杂微流控设备的单步制造。为开发惰性液体界面层打印方法而开发的新树脂将提供前所未有的能力，在3D空间中创建互连的微米级通道，并制造目前任何制造方法都无法产生的芯片上实验室系统。这种新型的高速、高保真3D打印机和即将开发的新型树脂有望为便携式化学设备带来更有效的制造方法，并将复杂的化学分析推进到当今的知识即时文化中。

This project aims to develop a novel 3D printer offering the highest resolution available and fastest printing speed for the single-step manufacturing of complex microfluidic devices. New resins developed to exploit the inert liquid interface layer printing approach will provide unprecedented capability to create micron sized channels interconnected in 3D space and fabricate Lab-on-a-Chip systems that cannot be generated by any current fabrication approach. This novel high speed, high fidelity 3D printer and the new resins to be developed are expected to lead to more effective manufacturing approaches for portable chemical devices and to promote complex chemical analysis into the knowledge immediacy culture of today.