Fabrication of a novel poly(dimethylsiloxane) microchips with two sharpened stretching tips

An integrated poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) microchip with two sharpened stretching has been presented. The sample was directly introduced into the separation channel through the stretching inlet tip without complicated power switching supplies and without injection cross-channel. Operations of running buffer refreshing or channel cleaning also becomes simple by vacuumed in one end and placed another tip into solution vial. The fabrication method can be easily applied in most analytical laboratories at low cost in the absence of soft lithography and plasma bonding equipments. Characteristics of the chips were tested and it can be used to separate fluorescence labeled molecules.