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Various miniaturized viscometers have been developed utilizing several fabrication methods. Among them, microfluidic paper-based analytical devices (μPADs) are becoming popular due to their fabrication ease, costeffectiveness, and the fact that the flow can be carried out using the embedded capillaries themselves. Mostly, μPADs are reported to be fabricated by a solid-ink printer, which has significantly high capital and operational cost. To overcome such drawbacks, a novel rapid prototyping method has been proposed, wherein the formation of the hydrophobic regions was created by polycaprolactone (PCL) filament using a 3-D printer. To leverage this, μPAD as a viscometer, velocity, or time between two points with known distances was required, which was carried out by an amperometric approach, established by fabricating the integrated screen-printed electrodes intersecting the microchannel of the μPAD …