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BIOMICROFLUIDICS
卷 16, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0080510
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- National Institutes of Health: National Cancer Institute [1F31CA243345-01]
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration [75F40121C00153-EO14042]
Microfluidics can provide unique functionalities for cell processing, but balancing processing throughput and cell concentration is crucial. Utilizing multiple parallel channels and a second manifold layer can achieve flow balance, ensuring flow properties in each channel, and enhance processing efficiency.
Microfluidics can bring unique functionalities to cell processing, but the small channel dimensions often limit the throughput for cell processing that prevents scaling necessary for key applications. While processing throughput can be improved by increasing cell concentration or flow rate, an excessive number or velocity of cells can result in device failure. Designing parallel channels can linearly increase the throughput by channel number, but for microfluidic devices with multiple inlets and outlets, the design of the channel architecture with parallel channels can result in intractable numbers of inlets and outlets. We demonstrate an approach to use multiple parallel channels for complex microfluidic designs that uses a second manifold layer to connect three inlets and five outlets per channel in a manner that balances flow properties through each channel. The flow balancing in the individual microfluidic channels was accomplished through a combination of analytical and finite element analysis modeling. Volumetric flow and cell flow velocity were measured in each multiplexed channel to validate these models. We demonstrate eight-channel operation of a label-free mechanical separation device that retains the accuracy of a single channel separation. Using the parallelized device and a model biomechanical cell system for sorting of cells based on their viability, we processed over 16 x 10(6) cells total over three replicates at a rate of 5.3 x 10(6) cells per hour. Thus, parallelization of complex microfluidics with a flow-balanced manifold system can enable higher throughput processing with the same number of inlet and outlet channels to control. Published under an exclusive license by AIP Publishing
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