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We gratefully acknowledge fruitful discussions with Stephan Herminghaus, Dagmar Steinhauser, Bernd Struth, Anatoly Snigirev, and Oleg Konovalov, and thank Udo Krafft for excellent technical assistance. We acknowledge the ESRF for provision of synchrotron radiation facilities at beamline ID10b. This work was supported by the DFG within the Emmy-Noether-Program (PF 375/2). Heather Evans thanks the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung for a postdoctoral fellowship.
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Rapid Prototyping of X-Ray Microdiffraction Compatible Continuous Microflow Foils†
Article first published online: 28 NOV 2006
DOI: 10.1002/smll.200600288
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Dootz, R., Evans, H., Köster, S. and Pfohl, T. (2007), Rapid Prototyping of X-Ray Microdiffraction Compatible Continuous Microflow Foils. Small, 3: 96–100. doi: 10.1002/smll.200600288
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- Issue published online: 19 DEC 2006
- Article first published online: 28 NOV 2006
- Manuscript Received: 14 JUN 2006
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Keywords:
- complex fluids;
- liquid crystals;
- microfluidics;
- microfocusing;
- soft lithography
Microfluidics meets microdiffraction: A straightforward and inexpensive method of fabricating long-lifetime, X-ray-microdiffraction compatible, ultrathin microfluidic devices with an overwhelming versatility with respect to channel design elements is presented (see image). To illustrate the analytic power and geometric flexibility of these microflow foils, X-ray microdiffraction measurements on shear-induced alignment effects in the smectic liquid crystal n-octyl-4-cyanobiphenyl are shown.