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    Lab Chip. 2009 Jan 7;9(1):171-4. doi: 10.1039/b805172k. Epub 2008 Oct 20.

    Photobleaching absorbed Rhodamine B to improve temperature measurements in PDMS microchannels.

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    Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.

    Abstract

    Rhodamine B based fluorescence thermometry is commonly used in microfluidics to measure fluid temperatures in microchannels. Notable absorption of Rhodamine B into PDMS channel walls, however, causes difficulties in obtaining accurate temperature measurements due to a steady increase in the overall fluorescent signal. A simple and effective technique is reported that removes the fluorescent signal from absorbed Rhodamine B dye by means of photobleaching with a high intensity light source before taking images for thermometry analysis. The temperature field at the convergence of hot and cold streams in a Y-channel fabricated in PDMS/glass microfluidic chip is studied to demonstrate the execution of the photobleaching technique.

    PMID:
    19209352
    [PubMed]

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