3D Printing Microfluidics Devices - Cadworks3D

hello my name is David Feldman I'm a third year engineering student in the laboratory of Shana Kelly at the University of Toronto and today I'm here to talk about 3d printing Michael Switek project that we have going on in our lab we developed my flute devices to be able to sort and cells based off of protein expression and in the first generation of the chip it it worked quite well so one of the projects that were working on right now is to be able to use 3d printing to be able to increase the amount of chips that we can make in the amount of samples that we can process so we've been working with CAD works 3d to be able to take our current for lithography based chip design and convert it to a 3d printing - temporary our chips were initially created using full lithography this required over an entire day in the computer where you're paying rates of $70 per hour to use the equipment and get about 20 chips over the course of an entire day of work but now with 3d printing you need to be able to print a chip in only 20 minutes I quite lower cost compared to the user fees this is one of our older chips that have been created using the traditional micro fabrication techniques to be able to create it it takes about three days to be able to create 20 devices whereas our new 3d printed chip we can be able to print out in only 20 minutes I'm going to use the same day that we've been so what are the projects that I'm doing is using 3d printed micro fluidics it's built to create a new design of the chip that takes 16 signs the previous chip and runs them all in parallel and this is the outcome of that where we have a 3d printed device with a manifold system designed within such that you have a common Inlet for the cell sample and for the outlet populations they get split into 16 different branches to be able to be sorted within the next generation the next chip well the initiative the place was success ended we were able to use it for instant application and have the design publish but within the like in the Kindle on here in the cloud we see the potential for commercialization of this technology one of the things that's required to be able to two partnerships with industry partners is feel to have a technology gets easily deployed we'll outside your own laboratory so what the 3d printing 3d printed version of the mix chip does is allow us to be able to deploy this technology to our partners in the United States and around the learning curve for beyond developed 3d printed by catalytic s-- it's not too difficult many of the people who are developing micro fluidics will have had experience which will help tremendously we do most of our work in fusion 360 because it's cloud-based and you can share your designs but one thing people in the lab or with collaborators but any 3/3 version of cad software like autocad or enter or SolidWorks there are some design parameters you have to follow because not everything that can be designed to actually be printed but working with CAD works 3d they use their traumatic experience to help you come designs that are going to meet your needs

Channel: Cadworks3D

Views: 9,110

Keywords: microfluidics, 3d printing, microfluidic, devices, pdms, mastermold, research, cancer research, bioengineering, research scientist, medical devices, lab on a chip

Id: scR20DQph8M

Length: 3min 23sec (203 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 05 2020