DG3-50um-Z100 Droplet Microfluidic Chips
THIS IS A PASSIVE T-CROSS CHANNEL DROPLET GENERATION CHIP WITHOUT RESERVOIR.
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In microfludics, generally speaking, there are 3 types of flow; laminar, droplet, and digital. Laminar flow, is well-known in micro-sized channels due to Reynold's number calculation. Digital and droplet flow conditions are similar to each other but in digital manipulation of liquid in microfludics, embedded electrodes and hydrophobic surfaces are used to move, mix or seperate droplets of liquid samples individually. Droplet flow, by the way, is a very beneficial finding in microfluidics tech.
Two immiscible liquid flowing opposite in a cross-section of microchannels do not mix with each other, obviously, and one forms micro-sized vesicles inside the other. The droplet formation depends on the cross-sectin geometry, channel sizes, relative flow rates, interfacial tension, and for some time the whole setup of tubings and pumping. The continuous phase in droplet microfluidics, is the liquid in which droplets are formed and the dispersed phase is the liquid of droplets. Using oil-water droplets is very common and mostli w-in-o droplets are used in Life Science applications. w-in-o-in-w double droplet applications or hydrogel-in-oil applications also become popular.
This is a passive droplet generation chip but there are also active (by electrical, magnetic, or centrifugel) droplet formation chip techniques. Although this chip is for passive droplet formation the actuation of liquid flow requires a pumping system.
Droplet microfluidics is accepted by various scientific and industrial applications mainly due to its highly monodisperse, well-controlled production and being high-throughput. These are some application fields:
--- Life Sciences: Single-cell pharmaceutical effect analysis, single cell gene expression level analysis, single cell mRNA/DNA sequencing analysis, digital droplet PCR, protein crystallization and screening,
--- Parmaceutical Sciences: Pharmaceutical synthesis and screening, pharmaceutical encapsulation inside microparticles / micro-bubble / micro-capsule formations, magnetic bead formation
--- Biotechnology: Therapeutical particle synthesis, single cell DNA modification analysis and screening, metagenomic screening, molecular library formation and screening, Bio-printing of cell spheres,
--- Diagnostic tech: Diagnostic devices for personalized medicine, novel biosensor research
--- Others: Chemical synthesis and screening, cosmetics, food industry, aerospace and more...
Specification | Info | ||||
Number of devices per chip | 7 devices | ||||
Droplet size diameter | It is suitable for 50 micrometers (um). Larger droplets are elliptic. | ||||
Material | PDMS bonded on microscopy glass. Please also check "Our Trip to PDMS Chips" blog post | ||||
Bonding Technique | Oxygen plasma treatment | ||||
XY Size of total chip | 25x73 mm2 of chip on 26x76 mm2 of std microscopy glass | ||||
Z Height of microchannels | 50 micrometer | ||||
Z Height of PDMS chip | 3.0 - 4.0 mm | ||||
Ports on top/edge | on Top | ||||
Number of ports | 5 ports per device | ||||
Pitch btw ports and edge-to-port | 3 mm and 3.5 mm | ||||
Size / Shape of ports | 2 mm / Circle | ||||
Suitable Connector Outer Diameter | 2.0 - 2.5 mm | ||||
microChannel geometry | Rectangular | ||||
Layout of active ports |
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Additional Requirements | Suggestions |
Pumping/Actuation | Droplet generation requires low-pulsation flow. Some high-quality syringe pumps and pressure pumps work well. Peristaltic, piezoelectronic pumps are not suggested due to relatively high pulsation. |
Fittings | All fittings in ufluidic.com are suitable with this chip. Any other connectors compatible with pitch and port size is also applicable. |
Chemicals | Samples of oil and water phases must be used together in droplet chips. Surfactant in oil phase is necessary to obtain stable droplets. Flourinated oil and surfactants are mostly accepted for cell culturing studies inside droplets generated. As water phase, most cell culture mediums and ionic buffers are acceptable. |
Visualisation | Epi-Fluorescent Microscopy is widely used together with droplet generation chips. Since, droplet generation occurs at high speed inside microchannels, recording may require high-fps cameras or photosensors regarding the application. |
These are some highly sited articles from literature. The chip designs are not identical but working is same in principle.
Adam et.al. 2019 |
Droplet microfluidics for generation of granular matters and functional elements |
doi: 10.14356/kona.2019004 |
Rakszewska et.al. 2014 |
One drop at a time: toward droplet microfluidics as a versatile tool for single-cell analysis |
doi: 10.1038/am.2014.86 |
Ostafe et.al. 2014 |
A high-throughput cellulase screening system based on droplet microfluidics |
doi: 10.1063/1.4886771 |
Li et.al. 2018 |
Microfluidic fabrication of microparticles for biomedical applications |
doi: 10.1039/C7CS00263G |
MacConnell et.al. 2017 |
An Integrated Microfluidic Processor for DNA-Encoded Combinatorial Library Functional Screening |
doi: 10.1021/acscombsci.6b00192 |
Shembekar et.al. 2018 |
Single-Cell Droplet Microfluidic Screening for Antibodies Specifically Binding to Target Cells |
doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.01.071 |
Kwak et.al. 2018 |
Mass fabrication of uniform sized 3D tumor spheroid using high-throughput microfluidic system |
doi: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2018.02.029 |
Hou et.al. 2018 |
Injectable degradable PVA microgels prepared by microfluidic technology for controlled osteogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells |
doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2018.07.003 |
Abalde-Cela et.al. 2018 |
Droplet microfluidics for the highly controlled synthesis of branched gold nanoparticles |
doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-20754-x |
Kullanım Kılavuzu | Yakında eklenecektir |
Nasıl kullanılır - Multimedya | Yakında eklenecektir |
Akış Testleri - Multimedya | Yakında eklenecektir |
Droplet Oluşumu - Multimedya | Yakında eklenecektir |