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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
卷 13, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29405-2
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- National Science Foundation [NSF ECCS 1610333]
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
- Sanford P. Bordeau Endowed Chair at the University of Minnesota
- McKnight Foundation
- NSF through the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) [ECCS-1542202]
- NSF through the MRSEC program
This paper introduces a geometric solution for actively manipulating open microchannels using a wireless radio frequency signal, showcasing the potential of open microfluidics in practical fluidic applications.
Open-channel microfluidics enables precise positioning and confinement of liquid volume to interface with tightly integrated optics, sensors, and circuit elements. Active actuation via electric fields can offer a reduced footprint compared to passive microfluidic ensembles and removes the burden of intricate mechanical assembly of enclosed systems. Typical systems actuate via manipulating surface wettability (i.e., electrowetting), which can render low-voltage but forfeits open-microchannel confinement. The dielectric polarization force is an alternative which can generate open liquid microchannels (sub-100 mu m) but requires large operating voltages (50-200 V-RMS) and low conductivity solutions. Here we show actuation of microchannels as narrow as 1 mu m using voltages as low as 0.5 V-RMS for both deionized water and physiological buffer. This was achieved using resonant, nanoscale focusing of radio frequency power and an electrode geometry designed to abate surface tension. We demonstrate practical fluidic applications including open mixing, lateral-flow protein labeling, filtration, and viral transport for infrared biosensing-known to suffer strong absorption losses from enclosed channel material and water. This tube-free system is coupled with resonant wireless power transfer to remove all obstructing hardware - ideal for high-numerical-aperture microscopy. Wireless, smartphone-driven fluidics is presented to fully showcase the practical application of this technology. Open microfluidics enables precise positioning of liquid sample with direct channel access. Here, authors demonstrate a geometrical solution for actively manipulating open microchannels using a wireless radio frequency signal.
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