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Glass-gate material split

The substrate-material gate is the last screen in the MFS-fit funnel: after a product clears microfluidic-advantage and standardization-fit, is its substrate one that a standardized glass architecture can actually serve?

Scope: 6616 tagged products across 19 material classes.

What the numbers say

Polymer (pdms / other_polymer) dominates by volume, but the glass/silicon family — highlighted blue — is where the chemistry (solvent resistance, optics, pressure/temperature) justifies a standardized glass architecture.

Glass/silicon-advantaged share: 4.1% (272 of 6,616 tagged products).

This is the corrected addressable-core estimate: the material-aware restatement of the microfluidics addressable market.

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