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ArticleScientific reports2016

Cascading and Parallelising Curvilinear Inertial Focusing Systems for High Volume, Wide Size Distribution, Separation and Concentration of Particles.

B Miller, M Jimenez, H Bridle

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

B MillerInstitute for Infrastructure and Environment, School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, The King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3FG, United Kingdom.
M JimenezInstitute of Biological Chemistry, Biophysics and Bioengineering, Heriot-watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, United Kingdom.
H BridleInstitute of Biological Chemistry, Biophysics and Bioengineering, Heriot-watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, United Kingdom.

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilMedical Research Council MC_PC_14104
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inertial focusing is a microfluidic based separation and concentration technology that has expanded rapidly in the last few years. Throughput is high compared to other microfluidic approaches although sample volumes have typically remained in the millilitre range. Here we present a strategy for achieving rapid high volume processing with stacked and cascaded inertial focusing systems, allowing for separation and concentration of particles with a large size range, demonstrated here from 30 μm-300 μm. The system is based on curved channels, in a novel toroidal configuration and a stack of 20 devices has been shown to operate at 1 L/min. Recirculation allows for efficient removal of large particles whereas a cascading strategy enables sequential removal of particles down to a final stage where the target particle size can be concentrated. The demonstration of curved stacked channels operating in a cascaded manner allows for high throughput applications, potentially replacing filtration in applications such as environmental monitoring, industrial cleaning processes, biomedical and bioprocessing and many more.

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PMCPMC5093461

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