With its plug-and-play setup, the LSPone is very well suited for practical works in education. It is used in Swiss universities.
The aim of this practical work is to learn the technique of rapid prototyping for microfabrication and to test the fabrication by observing the flow of 2 liquids using optical microscopy. The LSPone is used to bring liquids and microbeads in the microchannels that have been fabricated by the students.
What is my setup?
Required components:
- Computer with Tracker installed
- Fluorescence microscope
- Your home-made chip
- LSPone syringe pump
- DI water & Microbeads
- Waste reservoir
- Tubings & Connectors
- Optical fluoresence microscope used: SVW340 from Labsmith
- Computer program used to analyse beads passing: Tracker
- Microbeads used: FluoSpheresTM from ThermoFisher Scientific
- Chip used: the one created by the student during the practical work