The group around Yo TANAKA at RIKEN Yokohama has prepared an ultra thin flexible fluid chip from glass using ultra-short pulse laser technology which allowed to carve a groove structure with a high degree of accuracy in ultra-thin glass. The light-weight device is expected to be used in personalized medicine and life-science research.
RIKEN news release, May 26, 2016
RIKEN team prepares 12 µm thin glass fluidic chip