Abstract

In-line with the Industry Revolution 4.0, Microfluidics has grown substantially to realize real-life, fully robust and automated platforms. With unique properties amenable to be used in a variety of areas, from energy to biomedical, microfluidics has evolved and become contemporary by incorporating various other new methods and processes. To realize next generation of microfluidic devices, it is important to develop user-friendly, turnkey, portable and inexpensive solutions. This include the development of flexible and rapily protptypes devices, integratable detection method and data processing/analysis. In this presentation, the development of various cleanroom-free methods to fabricate benchtop laser-written and 3D pritned microfluidic devices, with optimum fluidics and detection zones, will be presented. Further, to make such devices smart, new approaches, such as off-the-shelf microcontrollers and microprocessors, Internet-of-Things and Machine Learning are being leveraged. This presentation will cover the recent development and ongoing work to realize such self-powered microfluidic devices including various bio/chemical, diagnostic devices and biofuel cells.