Story of Fluika
Fluika is a science, research and technology company
founded 2011 by Alar Ainla. Our first project was development of Fluika Miniature
Pneumatic Control Kit, which is a set of small components intended to help microfluidic engineers conveniently
assemble and design control systems for their experiments. This need was experienced by the founder during his graduate
studies, where he was tackling different microfluidic challenges. While it wasn't purpose of the research itself,
one practical problem was a lack of components, which would allow to design controls for pressure driven flows in
microfluidic systems. Something low-cost and simple, like multimeters, power-supplies or DAQ cards are in the
electronics world, which engineers could take from the shelf, connect up, and get quickly started with their
experiments. Alternatives in this point were high-end instruments, which were not affordable or industrial components,
which were big and cumbersome for development work, where fast reconfigurability was the key. While solving this problem
for his own research, it was clear that such components could be useful also for others in the rapidly growing microfluidics
and lab on a chip community, which was inspiration to shape it into a product. Fluika has been fortunate to have
wonderful partners. Now Fluika Miniature Pneumatic Control Kit has been taken over by
Science Mosaic for manufacturing and further developments.
Fluika kit is currently distributed worldwide by
Dolomite Microfluidics, a major supplier of microfluidic products.
We do not sell Fluika Miniature Pneumatic Control Kit, this requests should be made directly to
Dolomite. Fluika is now looking for next challenges in research and development in the fields of:
- Microfluidics
- Miniature pneumatics
- Scientific instrumentation and control systems
Founder: Alar Ainla, PhD