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Toppan Develops Technology to Enable Mass Production, Cost Reduction for Microfluidic Chips

LCD manufacturing technology successfully applied to create prototype chips for specimen testing.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Toppan has developed technology to manufacture glass microfluidic chips by photolithography. Mass production of microfluidic chips using the technology will make it possible to produce chips in larger volumes and at lower cost than those manufactured via current injection molding technology, which involves injecting polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), a type of silicone resin, into a metal mold. Photolithography is a fundamental technology honed by Toppan over 60 years in the electronics business and ...

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