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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 87, Issue 12, Pages 6041-6048Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b00516
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- Ministry of Science and Technology [2011CB707604, 2011CB707603]
- National Science Foundation of China [11272321, 11402274]
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Viscoelasticity-induced particle Migration has recently received increasing attention due to its ability to obtain high-quality focusing over a wide range of flow rates. However, its application is limited to low throughput regime since the particles can defocus as flow rate increases. Using an engineered carrier medium with constant and low viscosity and strong elasticity, the sample flow rates are improved to be 1 order of magnitude higher than those in existing studies. Utilizing differential focusing of particles of different sizes, here, we present sheathless particle/cell separation in simple straight microchannels that possess excellent parallelizability for further throughput enhancement. The present method can be implemented over a wide range of particle/cell sizes and flow rates. We successfully separate small particles from larger particles, MCF-7 cells from red blood cells (RBCs), and Escherichia colt (E. colt) bacteria from RBCs in different straight microchannels. The proposed method could broaden the applications of viscoelastic microfluidic devices to particle/cell separation due to the enhanced sample throughput and simple channel design.
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