期刊
JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICAL ENGINEERING-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME
卷 132, 期 12, 页码 -出版社
ASME
DOI: 10.1115/1.4002797
关键词
microfluidic device; concentration gradients; Dextran
资金
- National Institutes of Health [GM071702]
- National Science Foundation [CBET0428573]
- PSC-CUNY
Microfabrication has become widely utilized to generate controlled microenvironments that establish chemical concentration gradients for a variety of engineering and life science applications. To establish microfluidic flow, the majority of existing devices rely upon additional facilities, equipment, and excessive reagent supplies, which together limit device portability as well as constrain device usage to individuals trained in technological disciplines. The current work presents our laboratory-developed bridged mu Lane system, which is a stand-alone device that runs via conventional pipette loading and can operate for several days without need of external machinery or additional reagent volumes. The bridged mu Lane is a two-layer polydimethylsiloxane microfluidic device that is able to establish controlled chemical concentration gradients over time by relying solely upon differences in reagent densities. Fluorescently labeled Dextran was used to validate the design and operation of the bridged mu Lane by evaluating experimentally measured transport properties within the microsystem in conjunction with numerical simulations and established mathematical transport models. Results demonstrate how the bridged mu Lane system was used to generate spatial concentration gradients that resulted in an experimentally measured Dextran diffusivity of (0.82 +/- 0.01) x 10(-6) cm(2)/s. [DOI: 10.1115/1.4002797]
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