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ATTRIBUTIONS
We stand on the
shoulders of giants.
shoulders of giants.
Our work would not have been possible without the foundations laid by our mentors. Our work would not have been possible without the foundations laid by our mentors. Neptune’s microfluidic design and fabrication tool leverages projects such as Fluigi Place and Route, Mint description language, MakerFluidics, and 3DuF in order to provide the most intuitive and cohesive experience for users. These projects have been built and expanded on by our graduate student mentors. We would like to thank our mentors for all of the work they have done to allow us to bring Neptune to life.
Fluigi | Radhakrishna Sanka
A place and route tool for microfluidic devices. Fluigi takes a MINT file as input and strategically routes the features specified in the MINT into an optimized microfluidic design. Fluigi outputs the design in a series of visual formats: SVG files (which can be used to mill out the different layers of the microfluidic chip using a CNC mill), a JSON file (which can be used to visualize the microfluidic design with 3DuF), and EPS files (which can be used to build the chip using photolithography if the user so chooses).
MINT | Radhakrishna Sanka
A microfluidic description language generated as an output of MuShroom mapper and used as an input to Fluigi. This language is used to describe the features of the specified microfluidic device in great detail including specification of feature shape, size and spacing.
3DuF | Joshua Lippai
A CAD-like drawing web application. 3DuF can be used to manually draw a microfluidic design if the user wishes to bypass high-level specifications. 3DuF will then output SVG files (for CNC milling layers of the microfluidic chip) and a JSON file for later visualization and editing purposes. When used in the context of Neptune, 3DuF is leveraged to visualize the JSON output of Fluigi so that the user may control his or her microfluidic device intuitively through the Neptune interface.
MakerFluidics | Ryan Silva
MakerFluidics is an accessible, inexpensive microfluidic fabrication technique used to manufacture microfluidic chips. A user will use an SVG file to mill out both the control and flow layers of a microfluidic chip. Then he or she will use these 2 layers to sandwich a piece of PDMS and vacuum the chip to create a seal. Through Neptune, the user is encouraged to use this fabrication infrastructure to make their chip so that they may rapidly prototype many chips inexpensively for any iterations of their experiment and easily control their microfluidic system through the Neptune interface.
Microfluidic Application | Ali Lashkaripour
Microfluidic applications description
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