基于微流控芯片表面张力系数的测量方法

New Method of Measuring Surface Tension Coefficient Based on Microfluidic Chip

  • 摘要: 提出一种采用微流控芯片进行微量液体表面张力系数测量的新方法,并对其制作工艺流程进行研究. 以聚碳酸酯核孔膜为模,利用毛细作用力使聚二甲基硅氧烷预聚物充满膜孔. 固化后与微腔室键合,注入有机溶剂溶模释放出微柱阵列. 位于液气分界面处的微柱顶端由于蒸发作用打破表面张力平衡引起微柱发生弯曲形变,通过对微柱形变图像处理,计算得出表面张力系数. 实验结果表明该测量方法有效,测量精度达到nN/μm.

     

    Abstract: A new method to measure surface tension coefficient using microfluidic chip is proposed and the fabrication process of microfluidic chip was conducted. Taking the polycarbonate track-etched (PCTE) membrane as the template, the pores were filled with PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane) prepolymer via capillarity-driven. After bonding with microchamber, microposts array was released by dissolving the membrane in organic solvent. When the surface tension balance was broken due to evaporation, the tips of the microposts array submerged in aqueous solvent were pulled and displaced at the liquid-air interface. By processing the microposts’ deformation images, the surface tension coefficient could be calculated. The experiment results show that the proposed method is effective and the measurement resolution can reach in the order of nN/μm.

     

/

返回文章
返回
Baidu
map