Dolomite has teamed up with the UK’s National Centre for Atmospheric Science and has revealed that they have developed the next generation of microfluidics-based environmental testing equipment. This equipment can be used in monitoring air quality, which is really important in today’s scenarios. The project is aimed at developing a small-scale portable analysis system, which may help researchers to analyze the air quality and record such data. It may help us to understand the deterioration of air quality in a better way than existing models allow us to. Microfluidics would help researchers to develop smaller but more efficient, perhaps even portable devices systems that can do this job.

Dolomite created a microfluidic device with a shocking 7.5m of micro-channel, which ran through a 10piece of glass. Since it is a large piece, the challenge was to bring microfluidics to such a large etched glass plate. The channels through which the fluids interact are etched on this piece of glass and later patterned layers are fused together, and drills would help provide microscopic holes through which chemicals and gases can enter and leave the device. Dolomite so far has re-established its position as the leader in microfluidics. Microfluidics may certainly help us understand our environmental problems in a better way than traditional technologies currently do.

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