Fabrication of Glass Microchannels Using Plant Roots and Nematodes

Microchannels have been studied actively in recent years. Various types of materials are used for fabricating microchannels different applications including polymers, and ceramics. Since glass appealing properties such as hardness, transparency, thermal resistance, chemical they biomedical devices microfluidic application. Glass microchannel fabrication methods include etching, imprinting, 3D printing. This paper proposes unprecedented to fabricate using plant roots growth nematodes migration. The fabricated by these a complex three-dimensional structure, the smallest channels diameter several tens micrometers glass. Although is attractive material, it challenging sinter green body fully dense transparent solid structure. Hence, experiments were also conducted establish technique silica