Contact Lens Uses Microfluidics to Monitor and Treat Glaucoma

(spectrum.ieee.org)

42 points | by pseudolus 2 days ago

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  • v7n 1 hour ago
    Neat! I've occasionally looked into getting into DIY microfluidics, and one of the lowish-tech ideas I've seen is etching/engraving CD cases or other polystyrene sheets and baking them: this makes them shrink quite predictably, allowing for some really tiny channels. In arts & crafts they call them "Shrinky Dinks". PDMS is another interesting material, and could perhaps be somehow combined with 3D printing channels with alcohol-soluble polymers to print + dissolve the channels...