期刊
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS
卷 11, 期 6, 页码 1413-1421出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2017.2764118
关键词
Hydrodynamic; micro total analysis system (mu TAS); passive separation; tapered microfluidic
资金
- Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia [4L640]
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia [03E11, 03G47, 4J148, 02G46, 03H80]
Recent advances in microfluidic technologies have created a demand for a simple and efficient separation intended for various applications such as food industries, biological preparation, and medical diagnostic. In this paper, we report a tapered microfluidic device for passive continuous separation of microparticles by using hydrodynamic separation. By exploiting the hydrodynamic properties of the fluid flow and physical characteristics of micro particles, effective size based separation is demonstrated. The tapered microfluidic device has widening geometries with respect to specific taper angle which amplify the sedimentation effect experienced by particles of different sizes. A mixture of 3-mu m and 10-mu m polystyrene microbeads are successfully separated using 20 degrees and 25 degrees taper angles. The results obtained are in agreement with three-dimensional finite element simulation conducted using Abaqus 6.12. Moreover, the feasibility of this mechanism for biological separation is demonstrated by using polydisperse samples consists of 3-mu mpolystyrene microbeads and human epithelial cervical carcinoma (HeLa) cells. 98% of samples purity is recovered at outlet 1 and outlet 3 with flow rate of 0.5-3.0 mu l/min. Our device is interesting despite adopting passive separation approach. This method enables straightforward, label-free, and continuous separation of multiparticles in a stand-alone device without the need for bulky apparatus. Therefore, this device may become an enabling technology for point of care diagnosis tools and may hold potential for micrototal analysis system applications.
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