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LAB ON A CHIP
Volume 20, Issue 22, Pages 4106-4117Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d0lc00751j
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- R2R BIOFLUIDICS project under Horizon 2020 European Union (EU) Research and Innovation Programme [646260]
- NextGenMicrofluidics project under HORIZON2020 [862092]
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Roll-to-roll UV nanoimprint lithography has superior advantages for high-throughput manufacturing of micro- or nano-structures on flexible polymer foils with various geometries and configurations. Our pilot line provides large-scale structure imprinting for cost-effective polymer biochips (4500 biochips/hour), enabling rapid and multiplexed detections. A complete high-volume process chain of the technology for producing structures like mu-sized, triangular optical out-couplers or capillary channels (width: from 1 mu m to 2 mm, height: from 200 nm up to 100 mu m) to obtain biochips (width: 25 mm, length: 75 mm, height: 100 mu m to 1.5 mm) was described. The imprinting process was performed with custom-developed resins on polymer foils with resin thicknesses ranging between 125-190 mu m. The produced chips were tested in a commercial point-of-care diagnostic system for multiplexed DNA analysis of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (e.g., mecA, mecC gene detections). Specific target DNA capturing was based on hybridisation between surface bound DNA probes and biotinylated targets from the sample. The immobilised biotinylated targets subsequently bind streptavidin-horseradish peroxidase conjugates, which in turn generate light upon incubation with a chemiluminescent substrate. To enhance the light out-coupling thus to improve the system performance, optical structures were integrated into the design. The limits-of-detection of mecA (25 bp) for chips with and without structures were calculated as 0.06 and 0.07 mu M, respectively. Further, foil-based chips with fluidic channels were DNA functionalised in our roll-to-roll micro-array spotter following the imprinting. This straightforward approach of sequential imprinting and multiplexed DNA functionalisation on a single foil was also realised for the first time. The corresponding foil-based chips were able to detect mecA gene DNA sequences down to a 0.25 mu M concentration.
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