Microfluidics Core Facility Microfluidics Equipment

The following equipment can be used by the user to conduct the experiments in the Microfluidics Core Facility

All instruments can be used after an introduction to the system. The microscope is also equipped with a LED and 3 different filter cubes (405nm, 488nm and 550nm) for observing fluorescently-labelled specimen. However, the high-speed camera is monochromatic, meaning that no fluorescent high-speed videos can be recorded. The frame rate of the high-speed camera is 2000fps at the lowest resolution of 1200x1048, by tuning the resolution, higher frames/second can be recorded. Given the final application either the syringe pumps or the pressure-based flow controller is used. Volumes from 0.5µl up to 150ml can be used with those syringe pumps and from flow rates starting at 0.002µl/min up to 165.8ml/min. In contrast, the Elveflow system works with pressures from 0 to 2bar, expanding the application range with the microfluidic set up in the facility. We also own a pressure sensor and a flow sensor which allow us to read out the proper pressure inside the channels and automatically calculates the flow rate from the applied pressure, respectively.