Microfluidic Chips Made With Shrinky Dinks

SoyChemist writes "When she started her job as a new professor at UC Merced, Michelle Khine was stuck without a clean room or semiconductor fabrication equipment, so she went MacGyver and started making Lab-on-a-Chip devices in her kitchen with Shrinky Dinks, a laser printer, and a toaster oven. She would print a negative image of the channels onto the polystyrene sheets and then shrink them with heat. The miniaturized pattern served as a perfect mold for forming rounded, narrow channels in PDMS — a clear, synthetic rubber."

Sometimes

[$RANDOMLUSER]

I get a Shrinky Dink when I go swimming :-(

right when you need it, too.

[User 956]

When she started her job as a new professor at UC Merced, Michelle Khine was stuck without a clean room or semiconductor fabrication equipment

I hate when that happens.

Watch out for Einstien

[Rooked_One]

**WACK WACK WACK**

*obligitory family guy joke*

this story is a repeat

[circletimessquare]

http://slashdot.org/articles/06/04/01/1526216.shtml [slashdot.org]

I love MacGyver

[prakslash]

Some unknown facts about MacGyver:

Fact: On the 1st day, God created MACGYVER. On the 2nd day, God created knives and paperclips. On the 3rd day.. MACGYVER created everything else.

Fact: MACGYVER can invent 1000 different things using a ball of yarn and a pair of sunglasses. 999 of these things can kill a man. The remaining thing can kill a planet.

Fact: MACGYVER invented genocide using only blankets and smallpox.

Fact: The only thing that MACGYVER cannot produce with a soda can and an extension cord... is mercy.

Fact:One time, MACGYVER built a time machine out of an old refrigerator and a pocketwatch, and used it to travel to the ancient paradise of Atlantis. However, while there, he went on a drunken bender with with a magnifying glass and a book of matches. This area is now known as the Sahara.

Fact: Chuck Norris is an android built by MACGYVER in an attempt to find a worthy opponent.

Fact: Some crazy people claim that MACGYVER was just a TV character, played by Richard Dean Anderson. In actuality, Richard Dean Anderson was played by MACGYVER, and the show was a documentary, the events of which REALLY HAPPENED.

And the final Fact: Necessity is the mother of invention but... MACGYVER is the father.

Re:right when you need it, too.

[flyingsquid]

I'm not impressed. I mean, if she was really gonna pull a MacGuyver, she would have first made the toaster oven and printer with six feet of duct tape, a ball of string, and a half-can of WD-40.

Re:Sometimes

[Anonymous Coward]

See, even scientist women should stay in the kitchen!

So the world will end

[zappepcs]

covered in greygoo created in someone's kitchen with toys from Matel?

learn to fucking read

[everphilski]

This professor, who also happens to be a woman,

Who cares if she is a man or a woman? She is a person, like the rest of us.

makes semi-conductors in her kitchen and all she gets is penis jokes?

And she didn't make semiconductors, she made microfluidic devices. Yes, she is brilliant, you apparently are not.

Forget it...

[gordgekko]

I'm not using microfluidic chips until they're immune to gravimetric distortions.

Re:Sometimes

[rubycodez]

ya think clit jokes would be more appropriate?

Re:Somethings tapping at the back of her head

[Obfuscant]

Maybe this is why Shrinky Dink technology is getting popular with slashdotters.

Actually, the most popular toy technology for /.ers is now aquadots!

Re:So the world will end

[Penguinisto]

Only thing I don't see how to work in is the kitchen angle.

Oh, that's easy: Bobby Flay will use it in an Iron Chef America episode (something with Ancho peppers is a good bet), where it will jump up and go on an apeshit rampage after a food critic downs it ("too salty").

/P

Re:Meanwhile

[setagllib]

You saw it here first folks, a new anonymous literary masterpiece born right here on the dot.

Re:I love MacGyver

[buddhahat]

+5 Informative? Really?

Re:I love MacGyver

[lonesome_coder]

MacGyver can also make his own mod points with a series of tubes, tropical-fruit Bubble-Yum and a Mountain Dew bottle.

...so yes, +5 informative.

Re:right when you need it, too.

[Darinbob]

I hate housework, and as a result I've been stuck without a clean room for decades.

In other news...

[ElboRuum]

Another of her colleagues managed to come up with a workable Supersymmetry model using a Pet Rock, a Toss Across, and a Slinky.

Obligatory

[Cryacin]

"Don't thank me... Thank the moon's gravitational pull..."

Re:Her favorite toys

[whitehatlurker]

Don't laugh - she's an engineer. We had strange toys.

Wanna bet she made light saber out of that very laser printer? Or an FTL drive?

Re:I love MacGyver

[Anonymous Coward]

Then there was that guy who was dating a very religious girl who would only have sex if it was to have children. He was desperate and finally caved in and agreed to have unprotected sex. Afterwards she asked: "What are we going to call him?". He triumphantly pulled out the condom he had slipped on without her noticing and said: "If he can get out of here, MacGyver".

Re:Forget it...

[iluvcapra]

The gravimetric distortions are only a problem if you miss the annual baryon sweeps. The real concern is chromometric distortions and temporal wakes.

And MacGuyver..

Re:Sometimes

[drcagn]

PICS????? plz

Re:END MODERATOR ABUSE

[mr_josh]

Yes! We must create an elite, segregated group of people who are deemed intelligent by a test and put them in power without a vote! It CAN'T fail!

Re:Sometimes

[I Like Pudding]

You'd have to find them first.

Re:Karma Burn

[shadowbearer]

Accusing nerds on Slashdot is like accusing cats of being herd animals - it flies in the face of observation.

  What a beautiful sig there be there. ;)

SB