Francisco Paez Larios

Mr. Francisco Paez Larios

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Academic Career Length

8Years (2019-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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30 August 2019 in Micromachines
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EJEdgar Jiménez-Díaz
Edgar Jiménez-Díaz
MCMariel Cano-Jorge
Mariel Cano-Jorge
DZDiego Zamarrón-Hernández
Diego Zamarrón-Hernández
LCLucia Cabriales
Lucia Cabriales
FLFrancisco Paez Larios
Francisco Paez Larios
MHMathieu Hautefeuille
Mathieu Hautefeuille
Microfluidics has become a very promising technology in recent years, due to its great potential to revolutionize life-science solutions. Generic microfabrication processes have been progressively made available to academic laboratories thanks to cost-effective soft-lithography techniques and enabled important progress in applications like lab-on-chip platforms using rapid- prototyping. However, micron-sized features are required in most designs, especially in biomimetic cell culture platforms, imposing elevated costs of production associated with lithography and limiting the use of such devices. In most cases, however, only a small portion of the structures require high-resolution and cost may be decreased. In this work, we present a replica-molding method separating the fabrication steps of low (macro) and high (micro) resolutions and then merging the two scales in a single chip. The method consists of fabricating the largest possible area in inexpensive macromolds using simple techniques such as plastics micromilling, laser microfabrication, or even by shrinking printed polystyrene sheets. The microfeatures were made on a separated mold or onto existing macromolds using photolithography or 2-photon lithography. By limiting the expensive area to the essential, the time and cost of fabrication can be reduced. Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microfluidic chips were successfully fabricated from the constructed molds and tested to validate our micro–macro method.

6 December 2025 in Materials Today Chemistry
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LKLea C. Klepsch
Lea C. Klepsch
Jana IsmailJana Ismail
Jana Ismail
VBVivien Bachmann
Vivien Bachmann
FLFrancisco Paez Larios
Francisco Paez Larios
NRNicole C. Roesner
Nicole C. Roesner
Ulrich SchubertUlrich Schubert
Ulrich Schubert