Journal
MICROMACHINES
Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/mi10020103
Keywords
Microfilter; Dielectrophoresis; Particle separation; micropillar
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21827812, 31571005, 81871450]
- Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing [cstc2018jcyjAX0389]
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Particle separation is important in chemical and biomedical analysis. Among all particle separation approaches, microstructure filtration which based particles size difference has turned into one of the most commonly methods. By controlling the movement of particles, dielectrophoresis has also been widely adopted in particle separation. This work presents a microfluidic device which combines the advantages of microfilters and dielectrophoresis to separate micro-particles and cells. A three-dimensional (3D) model was developed to calculate the distributions of the electric field gradient at the two filter stages. Polystyrene particles with three different sizes were separated by micropillar array structure by applying a 35-Vpp AC voltage at 10 KHz. The blocked particles were pushed off the filters under the negative dielectrophoretic force and drag force. A mixture of Haematococcus pluvialis cells and Bracteacoccus engadinensis cells with different sizes were also successfully separated by this device, which proved that the device can separate both biological samples and polystyrene particles.
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