Inertio-elastic focusing of bioparticles in microchannels at high throughput
- Authors
- Lim, Eugene J.; Ober, Thomas J.; Edd, Jon F.; Desai, Salil P.; Neal, Douglas; Bong, Ki Wan; Doyle, Patrick S.; McKinley, Gareth H.; Toner, Mehmet
- Issue Date
- 6월-2014
- Publisher
- NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
- Citation
- NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, v.5
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
- Volume
- 5
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/98283
- DOI
- 10.1038/ncomms5120
- ISSN
- 2041-1723
- Abstract
- Controlled manipulation of particles from very large volumes of fluid at high throughput is critical for many biomedical, environmental and industrial applications. One promising approach is to use microfluidic technologies that rely on fluid inertia or elasticity to drive lateral migration of particles to stable equilibrium positions in a microchannel. Here, we report on a hydrodynamic approach that enables deterministic focusing of beads, mammalian cells and anisotropic hydrogel particles in a microchannel at extremely high flow rates. We show that on addition of micromolar concentrations of hyaluronic acid, the resulting fluid viscoelasticity can be used to control the focal position of particles at Reynolds numbers up to Re approximate to 10,000 with corresponding flow rates and particle velocities up to 50 ml min(-1) and 130 ms(-1). This study explores a previously unattained regime of inertio-elastic fluid flow and demonstrates bioparticle focusing at flow rates that are the highest yet achieved.
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