Current microfluidics technology suffers from the slow and error-prone process used to create the chips within a cleanroom. Dr. Greg Nordin, a professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at Brigham Young University, has spent thirty years developing new technologies based on micro- and nanofabrication processes. He loves the challenge of creating new capabilities to benefit our everyday lives. For the past fifteen years he has focused on inventing devices for health-related diagnostics and research, recently culminating in creating a 3D printer and related new materials specifically designed to fabricate medical diagnostic laboratories on tiny chips. This new 3D printer allows engineers to create chips for microfluidics in a fraction of the time, reliably, safely, and more consistently than ever before. Watch as Dr. Nordin explains this new technology here on TEDxBYU.
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