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LAB ON A CHIP
Volume 17, Issue 5, Pages 896-904Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c6lc01539e
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- Macao Science and Technology Development Fund [(FDCT) -047/2014/A1]
- University of Macau [SRG2016-00072-AMSV]
- State Key Laboratory on Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI Funds
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Existing digital microfluidic (DMF) chips exploit the electrowetting on dielectric (EWOD) force to perform droplet splitting. However, the current splitting methods are not flexible and the volume of the droplets suffers from a large variation. Herein, we propose a DMF chip featuring a 3D microblade structure to enhance the droplet-splitting performance. By exploiting the EWOD force for shaping and manipulating the mother droplet, we obtain an average dividing error of <2% in the volume of the daughter droplets for a number of fluids such as deionized water, DNA solutions and DNA-protein mixtures. Customized droplet splitting ratios of up to 20:80 are achieved by positioning the blade at the appropriate position. Additionally, by fabricating multiple 3D microblades on one electrode, two to five uniform daughter droplets can be generated simultaneously. Finally, by taking synthetic DNA targets and their corresponding molecular beacon probes as a model system, multiple potential pathogens that cause sepsis are detected rapidly on the 3D-blade-equipped DMF chip, rendering it as a promising tool for parallel diagnosis of diseases.
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