Pipes and tubular conduits – With flow regulators and/or baffles – Flow facilitating
Reexamination Certificate
2005-08-02
2005-08-02
Hook, James (Department: 3752)
Pipes and tubular conduits
With flow regulators and/or baffles
Flow facilitating
C138S038000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06923216
ABSTRACT:
A microfluidic device having durable ultraphobic fluid contact surfaces in the fluid flow channels of the device. The ultraphobic surface generally includes a substrate portion with a multiplicity of projecting regularly shaped microscale or nanoscale asperities disposed in a regular array so that the surface has a predetermined contact line density equal to or greater than a critical contact line density, and so that the ratio of the cross-sectional dimension of the asperities to the spacing dimension of the asperities is less than or equal to 0.1.
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