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BIOMICROFLUIDICS
Volume 13, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.5110718
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- National Science Foundation (NSF) [1804302]
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys [1804302] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We present experimental evidence that DNA can be concentrated due to an electrohydrodynamic coupling between a pressure-driven flow and a parallel electric field. The effects of buffer properties on the process were measured in a microfluidic channel. The concentration rates and the efficiency of trapping DNA were quantified as functions of the ion and polymer concentrations of the buffer solution. Buffers with large ion concentrations hindered the ability to trap DNA, reducing the short-time efficiency of the concentration process from nearly 100% to zero. Importantly, DNA was trapped in the microfluidic channel even when the buffer solution lacked any measurable viscoelastic response. These observations indicate that electrohydrodynamic migration drives the concentration of DNA. We found no evidence of viscoelastic migration in these experiments. Published under license by AIP Publishing.
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