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JOURNAL OF MICROMECHANICS AND MICROENGINEERING
卷 18, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/18/4/045017
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An automatic ultramicro-volume DNA ligation process using a coplanar electrode type of electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD) microfluidic system was designed for economy of reagent. The droplets, containing DNA, a ligation enzyme and a multi-salt reaction buffer, served to complete the ligation using a developed EWOD system. Droplets of ultramicro volume (0.3 mu L) were successfully generated from reservoirs between one plate with coplanar electrodes and another plate with a hydrophobic surface free of electrodes. In one successful cloning, the total usage of reagents in an ultramicro-volume EWOD chip was 2.1 mu L; no volume was wasted, in comparison with 85% waste with the standard protocol and 80% waste with a free-cover coplanar EWOD chip. The results also show that the entire process was accomplished without damage to the chip surface and without biomaterial annulment. With a design consisting of electrode pathways in a flexible pattern and multiplex reservoirs, an EWOD digital microfluidic system with coplanar electrodes would be improved as an efficient parallel DNA-cloning system in the construction of an artificial library or expression library.
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