Mengel Engineering now offers the new microfluidics probes and probe stations from US Company CorSolutions. The microfluidics probes provide stable, non-permanent fluidic connections to microfluidics chips made from glass, PMMA, COC and even soft materials like PDMS.

The probes are used as alternative to permanent ports, bonded, heat-cured or cast onto the fluid access port.

The probes consist of an all-metal precision-machined adjustment body and a compression sealed tubing/chip adapter.

The adapter is pressed against the chip surface by a spring-loaded screw with a precisely adjustable force, ensuring repeatable and leak-free connection to the fluidic port. The ports are easily disengaged and re-engaged so that the chip can quickly be changed without the need for readjustment.

Using the Corsolutions ports allows for rapid, nonpermanent, low or high pressure, leak-tight connections to be made to microchips in a highly reproducible manner, at any location on the microchip surface, irrespective of manufacturer-specific port pattern geometry.

The system can be used for the final performance assessment of a finished microfluidic product, or for processing and analyzing samples in a microfluidic chip.

A variety of tubing/chip adapters are available for different tubing sizes and different access port dimensions and materials. Unlike previous designs, the fluidic interface is a separate component attached to the port body, allowing the user to use his own design connectors.

Probe stations