MuVaP - University of Freiburg
Freiburg, 79110 GERMANY
phone: +49-761-2036-7676
shabanian@muvap.de
www.muVaP.de

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Utilizing our novel buckling piezo-membrane-actuators, we have developed a disruptive technology, muVaP, which is a high performance micro-Valve-and-Pump. With a cross section of only 23x23 mm, as a pump it can deliver an outstanding flowrate of 44 ml/min at only 200 mW of power consumption. As a valve it can close against 6 bars of pressure and allow for a flow of 8.5 l/min at 2 bar of pressure, with an actuation energy of only 7 mJ. Part of this work has been also presented at previous microTAS conferences. As a team of four founders, we have recently acquired over 1 Million Euro of Start-up grant from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy to bring this technology to the market. This enables us to maneuver freely, according to our potential future collaborators, in broad domain of microfluidics within a wide range of medical and industrial applications, where valving and/or pumping is required to handle liquids or gases.