Degas-Driven Deterministic Lateral Displacement in Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Microfluidic Devices

Anal Chem. 2019 Feb 19;91(4):3093-3100. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.8b05587. Epub 2019 Feb 5.

Abstract

In this work, degas-driven microfluidic deterministic lateral displacement devices were fabricated from poly(dimethylsiloxane). Two device configurations were considered: one with a single input for the enrichment of particles and the other one with sheath inputs for the separation of particles based on their sizes. Using the single-input device, the characteristics of the degas-driven fluid through micropillars were investigated, and then selective enrichment of fluorescent polymer particles with diameters of around 13 μm mixed with similar 7 μm particles was demonstrated. Using the sheath-input device, the separation of 13 and 7 μm beads was achieved (the corresponding purities exceeded 92.62% and 99.98%, respectively). In addition, clusters composed of 7 μm beads (including doublets, triplets, and quadruplets) were fractionated based on their equivalent sizes. Finally, white blood cells could be separated from red blood cells at a relatively high capture efficiency (95.57%) and purity (86.97%).

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Dimethylpolysiloxanes / analysis*
  • Fluorescent Dyes / chemistry
  • Lab-On-A-Chip Devices*
  • Particle Size
  • Polymers / chemistry

Substances

  • Dimethylpolysiloxanes
  • Fluorescent Dyes
  • Polymers
  • baysilon