Novel NIST Connector Uses Magnets for Leak-Free Microfluidic Devices
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 15:56
in Physics & Chemistry
While fiddling one day with a pair of magnets, NIST researcher Javier Atencia realized he was holding a solution to an annoying engineering problem: how to simply, reliably and most of all, tightly, connect fluid tubes to his tiny microfluidic devices.