ArticleScience advances2020
Electro-actuated valves and self-vented channels enable programmable flow control and monitoring in capillary-driven microfluidics.
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- Fully Microfabricated Surface Acoustic Wave Tweezer for Collection of Submicron Particles and Human Blood Cells.ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2023Article
- Diffusion-free valve for preprogrammed immunoassay with capillary microfluidics.Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2023Article
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- Open-channel microfluidics via resonant wireless power transfer.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Reconfigurable microfluidics.Nature reviews. Chemistry · 2022Review
- Capillaric field effect transistors.Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2022Article
- Reconfigurable multi-component micromachines driven by optoelectronic tweezers.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Single-cell microfluidic impedance cytometry: from raw signals to cell phenotypes using data analytics.Lab on a chip · 2021Article
- Study on Electrical Performance of a U-Type Microfluidic Acceleration Switch Using Salt Solution as the Sensitive Electrode.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
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Abstract
Microfluidics are essential for many lab-on-a-chip applications, but it is still challenging to implement a portable and programmable device that can perform an assay protocol autonomously when used by a person with minimal training. Here, we present a versatile concept toward this goal by realizing programmable liquid circuits where liquids in capillary-driven microfluidic channels can be controlled and monitored from a smartphone to perform various advanced tasks of liquid manipulation. We achieve this by combining electro-actuated valves (e-gates) with passive capillary valves and self-vented channels. We demonstrate the concept by implementing a 5-mm-diameter microfluidic clock, a chip to control four liquids using 100 e-gates with electronic feedback, and designs to deliver and merge multiple liquids sequentially or in parallel in any order and combination. This concept is scalable, compatible with high-throughput manufacturing, and can be adopted in many microfluidics-based assays that would benefit from precise and easy handling of liquids.
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