Microfluidic Injection Valve

Smart control and automation of your fluidic path

Discover Fluigent microfluidic valves, a set of compact instruments allowing to complexify and easily handle the fluidic path of your system. Once integrated in the set-up, the valves can be controlled in real-time and even without the requirement of a PC.

The L-SWITCH is a 6-port / 2-position microfluidic injection valve that, combined with Fluigent’s pressure controllers, allows us to inject a small volume of sample into a liquid stream, reducing cost, as well as to run and automate long-term experiments with high reproducibility and reliability. 

The microfluidic injection valve has 6 inputs and two interchangeable configurations shown on the images below. Each input is connected to a neighbor output, either on the right or the left depending on the configuration.

Example of use

By combining the microfluidic injection valve with our cell encapsulation platform, it is possible to work with samples with a reduced volume (e.g. working with cells of limited availability, such as stem cells, primary cells from patients…). It is also ideal for the use of rare cells or expensive reagents with a total volume lower than 500µl/.