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LAB ON A CHIP
卷 12, 期 15, 页码 2736-2742出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2lc21123h
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- NIH [R01-EB12058, P41-EB2182]
- Kwangwoon University
This paper presents experimental results demonstrating the feasibility of high frequency ultrasonic sensing and sorting for screening single oleic acid (lipid or oil) droplets under continuous flow in a microfluidic channel. In these experiments, hydrodynamically focused lipid droplets of two different diameters (50 mu m and 100 mu m) are centered along the middle of the channel, which is filled with deionized (DI) water. A 30 MHz lithium niobate (LiNbO3) transducer, placed outside the channel, first transmits short sensing pulses to non-invasively determine the acoustic scattering properties of the individual droplets passing through the beam's focus. Integrated backscatter (IB) coefficients, utilized as a sorting criterion, are measured by analyzing the received echo signals from each droplet. When the IB values corresponding to 100 mu m droplets are obtained, a custom-built LabVIEW panel commands the transducer to emit sinusoidal burst signals to commence the sorting operation. The number of droplets tested for the sorting is 139 for 50 mu m droplets and 95 for 100 mu m droplets. The sensing efficiencies are estimated to be 98.6% and 99.0%, respectively. The sorting is carried out by applying acoustic radiation forces to 100 mu m droplets to direct them towards the upper sheath flow, thus separating them from the centered droplet flow. The sorting efficiencies are 99.3% for 50 mu m droplets and 85.3% for 100 mu m droplets. The results suggest that this proposed technique has the potential to be further developed into a cost-effective and efficient cell/microparticle sorting instrument.
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