MIT engineers explore microfluidics with LEGO bricks

MIT engineers explore microfluidics with LEGO bricks 02/06/2018 12:48 PM EST The field of microfluidics involves minute devices that precisely manipulate fluids at submillimeter scales. Such devices typically take the form of flat, two-dimensional chips, etched with tiny channels and ports that are arranged to perform various operations, such as mixing, sorting, pumping, and storing fluids as they flow. Now, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team, looking beyond such lab-on-a-chip designs, has found an alternative microfluidics platform LEGO ... Full story at http://news.mit.edu/2018/microfluidics-lego-bricks-0131 Source Massachusetts Institute of Technology This is an NSF News From the Field item. Follow NSF:  This email was sent using GovDelivery Communications Cloud on behalf of: National Science Foundation Update · 2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22314 · 703-292-5111