Dolomite Maintain the Lead in Microfluidics with the Mitos Circular ...

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The Mitos microfluidic circular connector offers fast, easyconnection of up to eight high-pressure microfluidic channels. Dolomite Maintain the Lead in Microfluidics with the Mitos CircularConnector UK | Posted on September 1st, 2008
Royston based microfluidics experts, Dolomite, have announced therelease of a new generation of microfluidic connectors that willenable chemists and scientists to more easily benefit from advancesin microfluidic technology.

As part of the Mitos range of standard products that includesmicrofluidic chips, connectors and pumps, the Mitos circularconnector will enable the fast and easy integration of microfluidicdevices into new and existing systems.

Dolomite is a world leader in Microfluidics, a technology alsoknown as lab on a chip'. This is an exciting new field of scienceand engineering that enables very small-scale fluid control andanalysis, allowing instrument manufacturers to develop smaller,more cost-effective and more powerful systems. With lab-on-a-chiptechnology, entire complex chemical management and analysis systemsare created in a microfluidic chip and interfaced with, forexample, the Mitos circular connector.

"The demand for a new generation of connectors is very high," saidTim Landucci, Marketing Manager at Dolomite. "As the many benefitsof microfluidic technology are becoming more widely understood andas microfluidic chips are becoming more complex, being able to getthe fluids into and out of such small scale devices is becomingthe' major design issue. At Dolomite we are working with manycompanies around the world on a number of projects and we arefinding that connector design and production is now an importantpart of what we do, alongside the actual chip design andmanufacture."

The new Mitos connector enables the connection of eight,high-pressure fluid channels, and has been designed to ensure afast, reliable connection to the surface of microfluidic chips.Manufactured in PTFE and perfluoroelastomer, the connector ischemically resistant and its design enables it to be locatedanywhere on a microfluidic chip, offering maximum versatility. Italso has the ability to handle high pressure, up to 20 Bar.

"I think its size is quite amazing," said Tim Landucci. "Theconnections are very close together, roughly 3mm apart. This makesit a very compact solution. There is not another connector on themarket like this. Similar connectors are bigger and use other lessversatile techniques, such as sealing the tubes to the chip withadhesive. The connector is a big achievement for our design teamand we are confident that it will be widely adopted by themicrofluidics community."

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About Dolomite
Dolomite is a world leader in microfluidic applications. We workwith instrument manufacturers around the world providing the designand manufacture of microfluidic devices and microfluidic basedinstruments and systems. The company was formed to bring togetherexperts in microfluidics, automated flow-chemistry, instrumentdesign and product development and has its headquarters in Royston(near Cambridge) UK.

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