Fig. 1
From: Monolithic nano-porous polymer in microfluidic channels for lab-chip liquid chromatography
Fabrication procedures of a TPE microfluidic device, (i) PDMS replica mould from the acrylate master mould, (ii) TPE pouring, (iii) peeling off the semi-cured TPE, (iv) bonding with the PET substrate, (v) PEEK unions attachment and the channel packing with MNP, and b poly(methyl acrylate) monolithic column packing in the channel, (i) introducing a photografting solution into a TPE channel, (ii) UV exposure through PET substrate, (iii) flushing the residual solution by flowing a methanol-based cleaning solution, (iv) introducing the poly(methyl acrylate) mixture solution, (v) UV exposure through PET substrate and (vi) flushing unreacted solutions using the cleaning solution