scholarly journals Microfluidic magnetic bead conveyor belt

Lab on a Chip ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (22) ◽  
pp. 3826-3840 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stijn van Pelt ◽  
Arjan Frijns ◽  
Jaap den Toonder

Magnetic beads can be manipulated in a microfluidic channel using on-chip soft-magnetic structures and an external rotating field.

Biosensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Puneet Manocha ◽  
Gitanjali Chandwani

Molecular communication is a bioinspired communication that enables macro-scale, micro-scale and nano-scale devices to communicate with each other. The molecular communication system is prone to severe signal attenuation, dispersion and delay, which leads to performance degradation as the distance between two communicating devices increases. To mitigate these challenges, relays are used to establish reliable communication in microfluidic channels. Relay assisted molecular communication systems can also enable interconnection among various entities of the lab-on-chip for sharing information. Various relaying schemes have been proposed for reliable molecular communication systems, most of which lack practical feasibility. Thus, it is essential to design and develop relays that can be practically incorporated into the microfluidic channel. This paper presents a novel design of passive in-line relay for molecular communication system that can be easily embedded in the microfluidic channel and operate without external energy. Results show that geometric modification in the microfluidic channel can act as a relay and restore the degraded signal up-to 28%.


Author(s):  
Jing Ren ◽  
Sriram Sundararajan

Realistic random roughness of channel surfaces is known to affect the fluid flow behavior in microscale fluidic devices. This has relevance particularly for applications involving non-Newtonian fluids, such as biomedical lab-on-chip devices. In this study, a surface texturing process was developed and integrated into microfluidic channel fabrication. The process combines colloidal masking and Reactive Ion Etching (RIE) for generating random surfaces with desired roughness parameters on the micro/nanoscale. The surface texturing process was shown to be able to tailor the random surface roughness on quartz. A Large range of particle coverage (around 6% to 67%) was achieved using dip coating and drop casting methods using a polystyrene colloidal solution. A relation between the amplitude roughness, autocorrelation length, etch depth and particle coverage of the processed surface was built. Experimental results agreed reasonably well with model predictions. The processed substrate was further incorporated into microchannel fabrication. Final device with designed wall roughness was tested and proved a satisfying sealing performance.


Lab on a Chip ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 1912-1922 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Del Giudice ◽  
Hojjat Madadi ◽  
Massimiliano M. Villone ◽  
Gaetano D'Avino ◽  
Angela M. Cusano ◽  
...  

Deflection of magnetic beads in a microfluidic channel can be improved through viscoelastic focusing.


2007 ◽  
Vol 121-123 ◽  
pp. 611-614
Author(s):  
Che Hsin Lin ◽  
Jen Taie Shiea ◽  
Yen Lieng Lin

This paper proposes a novel method to on-chip fabricate a none-dead-volume microtip for ESI-MS applications. The microfluidic chip and ESI tip are fabricated in low-cost plastic based materials using a simple and rapid fabrication process. A constant-speed-pulling method is developed to fabricate the ESI tip by pulling mixed PMMA glue using a 30-μm stainless wire through the pre-formed microfluidic channel. The equilibrium of surface tension of PMMA glue will result in a sharp tip after curing. A highly uniform micro-tip can be formed directly at the outlet of the microfluidic channel with minimum dead-volume zone. Detection of caffeine, myoglobin, lysozyme and cytochrome C biosamples confirms the microchip device can be used for high resolution ESI-MS applications.


2013 ◽  
Vol 753-755 ◽  
pp. 1571-1575
Author(s):  
Zhi Hua Liu ◽  
Yu Feng Huang ◽  
Jian Peng Li ◽  
Xin Wei Xu

Magnetic bead droplet's non-contacted manipulation can be realized in Electromagnetic MEMS, but how to achieve magnetic beads manipulation is the major problem. A new method of multi-layered flat coils coupled with permanent magnet was proposed. Firstly, the theory of magnetic bead manipulation was analyzed and the main factors affected the magnetic beads manipulation was identified; then the magnetic field of multi-layered flat coils and Stokes viscous resistance of magnetic beads were analyzed and simulated quantificationally; finally the magnetic bead capture area was got under different flow velocity. Consequently the feasibility and correctness of this method was verified.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Rujie Xu ◽  
Zhixiang Yin ◽  
Zhen Tang ◽  
Jing Yang ◽  
Jianzhong Cui ◽  
...  

Magnetic beads and magnetic Raman technology substrates have good magnetic response ability and surface-enhanced Raman technology (SERS) activity. Therefore, magnetic beads exhibit high sensitivity in SERS detection. In this paper, DNA cycle hybridization and magnetic bead models are combined to solve 0-1 integer programming problems. First, the model maps the variables to DNA strands with hairpin structures and weights them by the number of hairpin DNA strands. This result can be displayed by the specific binding of streptavidin and biotin. Second, the constraint condition of the 0-1 integer programming problem can be accomplished by detecting the signal intensity of the biological barcode to find the optimal solution. Finally, this model can be used to solve the general 0-1 integer programming problem and has more extensive applications than the previous DNA computing model.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinye Chen ◽  
Abbi miller ◽  
Shengting Cao ◽  
Yu Gan ◽  
Jie Zhang ◽  
...  

<div>A micro- and nano-fluidic device stacked with magnetic beads is developed to efficiently trap, concentrate, and retrieve Escherichia coli (E. coli) from bacteria suspension</div><div>and pig plasma. The small voids between the magnetic beads are used to physically isolate the bacteria in the device. We use computational fluid dynamics (CFD), 3D</div><div>tomography technology, and machine learning to probe and explain the bead stacking in a small 3D space with various flow rates. A combination of beads with different sizes is utilized to achieve a high capture efficiency of ~86% with a flow rate of 50 μL/min. Leveraging the high deformability of this device, the E. coli sample is retrieved from the designated bacteria suspension by applying a higher flow rate, followed by rapid magnetic separation. This unique function is also utilized to concentrate E. coli from the original bacteria suspension. An on-chip concentration</div><div>factor of ~11× is achieved by inputting 1,300 μL of the E. coli sample and then concentrating it in 100 μL buffer.</div><div>Importantly, this multiplexed, miniaturized, inexpensive, and transparent device is easy to fabricate and operate, making it ideal for pathogen separation in both laboratory and pointof- care (POC) settings.</div>


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinye Chen ◽  
Abbi miller ◽  
Shengting Cao ◽  
Yu Gan ◽  
Jie Zhang ◽  
...  

<div>A micro- and nano-fluidic device stacked with magnetic beads is developed to efficiently trap, concentrate, and retrieve Escherichia coli (E. coli) from bacteria suspension</div><div>and pig plasma. The small voids between the magnetic beads are used to physically isolate the bacteria in the device. We use computational fluid dynamics (CFD), 3D</div><div>tomography technology, and machine learning to probe and explain the bead stacking in a small 3D space with various flow rates. A combination of beads with different sizes is utilized to achieve a high capture efficiency of ~86% with a flow rate of 50 μL/min. Leveraging the high deformability of this device, the E. coli sample is retrieved from the designated bacteria suspension by applying a higher flow rate, followed by rapid magnetic separation. This unique function is also utilized to concentrate E. coli from the original bacteria suspension. An on-chip concentration</div><div>factor of ~11× is achieved by inputting 1,300 μL of the E. coli sample and then concentrating it in 100 μL buffer.</div><div>Importantly, this multiplexed, miniaturized, inexpensive, and transparent device is easy to fabricate and operate, making it ideal for pathogen separation in both laboratory and pointof- care (POC) settings.</div>


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