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LAB ON A CHIP
Volume 13, Issue 22, Pages 4400-4408Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c3lc50816a
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- Science Foundation of Ireland [08/RP1/B1376, 08/IN1/B2072]
- Irish Research Council (EMPOWER)
- Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship
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Magnetic separation provides a rapid and efficient means of isolating biomaterials from complex mixtures based on their adsorption on superparamagnetic (SPM) beads. Flow enhanced non-linear magnetophoresis (FNLM) is a high-resolution mode of separation in which hydrodynamic and magnetic fields are controlled with micron resolution to isolate SPM beads with specific physical properties. In this article we demonstrate that a change in the critical frequency of FNLM can be used to identify beads with magnetic susceptibilities between 0.01 and 1.0 with a sensitivity of 0.01 Hz(-1). We derived an analytical expression for the critical frequency that explicitly incorporates the magnetic and non-magnetic composition of a complex to be separated. This expression was then applied to two cases involving the detection and separation of biological targets. This study defines the operating principles of FNLM and highlights the potential for using this technique for multiplexing diagnostic assays and isolating rare cell types.
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