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ACS NANO
卷 14, 期 1, 页码 422-433出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b06123
关键词
viscoelastic microfluidics; extracellular vesicles; oscillatory flow; exosomes; Brownian motion
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资金
- Swiss National Science Foundation [205321/176011/1]
- ETH Zurich
- NIH Common Fund, through the office of Strategic Coordination/Office of the NIH Director [UG3CA241703]
The ability to precisely control particle migration within microfluidic systems is essential for focusing, separating, counting, and detecting a wide range of biological species. To date, viscoelastic microfluidic systems have primarily been applied to the focusing, separation, and isolation of micrometer-sized species, with their use in nanoparticle manipulations being under-developed and underexplored, due to issues related to nanoparticle diffusivity and a need for extended channel lengths. To overcome such issues, we herein present sheathless oscillatory viscoelastic microfluidics as a method for focusing and separating both micrometer and submicrometer species. To highlight the efficacy of our approach, we segment our study into three size regimes, namely, micrometer (where characteristic particle dimensions are above 1 mu m), sub-micrometer (where characteristic dimensions are between 1 mu m and 100 nm), and nano (where characteristic dimensions are below 100 nm) regimes. Based on the ability to successfully manipulate particles in all these regimes, we demonstrate the successful isolation of p-bodies from biofluids (in the micrometer regime), the focusing of lambda-DNA (in the sub-micrometer regime), and the focusing of extracellular vesicles (in the nanoregime). Finally, we characterize the physics underlying viscoelastic microflows using a dimensionless number that relates the lateral velocity (due to elastic effects) to the diffusion constant of the species within the viscoelastic carrier fluid. Based on the ability to precisely manipulate species in all three regimes, we expect that sheathless oscillatory viscoelastic microfluidics may be used to good effect in a range of biological and life science applications.
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