INNOVATION CENTRES

• Circular Economy/ Life Cycle Assessment
• Eco-design of sustainable products
• Processing/ applications of sustainable materials
• Energy/ Water/ Waste Management
• Sustainable Solutions for Urban Farming
• Smart Solutions for Build Environment
  

• Design and development of microfluidics systems
• Prototyping and production of microfluidics devices

• A pilot roll-to-roll line for prototyping and pilot production of functional films and printed electronics

SMF spearheads innovation in value creation of polymer microfluidics manufacturing. SMF houses a micro fabrication line with robust processes to ensure unparalleled quality and value for the manufacturing needs of microfluidics devices

SMF Capabilities

• Design and development of microfluidics devices
  
• Prototyping and production of microfluidics devices
• Polymer microfluidics device manufacturing

Target Applications

• Life science research
  
• Medical diagnostics
  
• Chemical processing
  
• Water and environment
  
• Agro and food

PID has established a pilot roll-to-roll line for prototyping and pilot production of functional films and printed electronics. It also provides design and application development of printed electronics products

LAP Capabilities

• Additive patterning processes including screen printing and ink-jet deposition
• Roll-to-roll coating/printing
  
• Formulation and processing of printable functional materials
  

Target Applications

• Large Area Flexible Printed Lighting for back illumination of advertisement posters, signage and building façade
  
• Roll-to-Roll Printed Transparent Conductive Film
  
• Roll-to-Roll Printed Heater, Electrodes, Touch and Sensor for Smart Wearable, Smart Packaging and other Smart System
  
• Flexible Hybrid Electronics which integrate printed electronics with semiconductors and combining thermoforming and in-mild processes to create smart flexible integrated system

SEAC provides the following products and services to help local companies to adopt emerging technology:

SMF Services & Products
SMF provides design and simulation for microfluidics devices. It also provides prototyping and pilot production of polymer based microfluidics devices, which include Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), Polycarbonate (PC), Cyclic Olefin Copolymer (COC) and others. It employs a comprehensive array of cutting-edge manufacturing technologies to address unique requirements. SMF also offers the following products:

• SMF standard size microfluidics chips and chip holders
  
• Universal chipholders for wide range of microfluidics chips
  
• Microfluidic test station integrated with pumps for detection
  
• Cascadable syringe pumps with 0.015μm step resolution
  
• Micro-droplet generator with disposable components to eliminate cross contamination

LAP provides design, prototyping and pilot production of products to develop emerging industries in these applications.

• Printed Lighting for illuminated advertisements, furniture, and building façade lightings
• Printed Circuitry, Sensor and Touch for consumer electronics, medical devices, wearable electronics, smart packaging and other smart/integrated systems
• Printed Energy Devices such as printed batteries and printed photovoltaics

Manufacturing has entered an era of creating more value with less environmental burdens. Re-engineering of manufacturing processes and value chain is a fundamental approach towards a sustainable industry.

Natural resources are finite. With ever growing consumption driven by population growth and economic development, nature is struggling to replenish itself prior to depletion.

Resource conservation and optimisation can be achieved by:

• Going back to basics — rediscover yesterday, today
• Tapping on the abundant renewable materials
• Doing more with less — use sustainable materials

Waste with renewed purpose is a resource. By making this paradigm shift, cost can be reduced and profits will increase. To achieve sustainability in manufacturing, waste must be given a new lease of life in products. There are different ways to transform waste into valuable resources: reuse, remanufacture, recycle, recover.

Mankind has always placed our needs and requirement above that of the environment. Our needs can be harmonised with the ecosystem through optimising consumption and production of products. A holistic systematic thinking of a product over its entire life cycle is essential for preventing stage-centric solutions so as to maximise the value and to minimise the environmental impacts. At each stage, there are opportunities for application of technological and scientific principles to the design and manufacture of products for improving the sustainability.

The advantages of microfluidics technology are often applied in point-of-care and clinical diagnostics, pharmaceutical and life science research, analytical and monitoring devices, and drug delivery. We have worked with the industry and academia to apply our manufacturing capability to develop microfluidics products for various applications. Some of our previous/current examples for various applications are highlighted below:

APPLICATIONS

• Bio-lab Automation with Lab on a Chip Tools:
  • Automatic molecular profiling station
  • Circulating Tumour Cell (CTC) screening for rare cell detection
  • Automatic Microvesicle (Exosome) Enrichment system
• Pharmaceutical and Life Science Research:
• In-vitro skin testing using multi chamber microfluidic system
• GMP & EUP certified micro-encapsulation system for bio-pharmaceuticals
• Point-of-Care and Clinical Diagnostics:
  • Point of Care Testing (POCT) System with fully enclosed chips for rapid diagnosis of life-critical bio-markers
  • Molecular Diagnosis System with integrated sample preparation, signal amplification and detection
• Food Science and Industry:
  • GMP certified micro-encapsulation system for Probiotics protection & Taste masking
  • Hologram Spores Detection system for quarantine and quality control

At the SMF, we work with industry and academic partners in providing robust manufacturing capabilities as well as developing innovative new capabilities to extend the applications of microfluidics to new frontiers.

PID has established a pilot roll-to-roll line for prototyping and pilot production of functional films and printed electronics. It also provides design and application development of printed electronics products

• Additive patterning processes including screen printing and ink-jet deposition
• Roll-to-roll coating/printing
• Formulation and processing of printable functional materials