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21st National Biomedical Engineering Meeting (BIYOMUT), İstanbul, Turkey, 24 November - 26 December 2017
In droplet based microfluidics, ability of controlling the motion of the droplets insidechips have great importance for the applications such guiding, sorting, mixing and dividing of liquid droplets. In this study, we fabricated hydrophilic microchannels inside the chips by femtosecond laser ablation technique in order to control droplet motion. The laser beam focused on PDMS converts the irradiated regions to hydrophilic by ablating the coating entirely from the surface. Droplets follow the tracks because of the difference in wettability of ablated region and PDMS surfaces together with the topographical profile of the ablated tracks.