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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2022
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT (US);
Henry Davis, Provo, UT (US);
Brian Jensen, Orem, UT (US);
Nathan B. Crane, Vinyard, UT (US);
Robert C. Davis, Provo, UT (US);
James Harkness, Mapleton, UT (US);
Isa Kohls, Provo, UT (US);
Richard Vanfleet, Provo, UT (US);
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, Provo, UT (US);
Abstract
Embodiments disclosed are systems and methods for interfacing a metallic capillary in a microchannel of a metallic body. A method may include inserting a portion of the metallic capillary into a portion the microchannel of the metallic body, sintering the portion of the metallic capillary to the portion of the microchannel of the metallic body, disposing a sacrificial powder at least proximate to the metallic capillary and the metallic body after sintering the portion of the metallic capillary and the portion of the microchannel of the metallic body, and infiltrating at least the portion of the metallic capillary sintered to the portion of the microchannel of the metallic body with an infiltrant in the presence of the sacrificial powder disposed at least proximate to the metallic capillary and the metallic body.