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ArticleLab on a chip2022

Volumeless reagent delivery: a liquid handling method for adding reagents to microscale droplets without increasing volume.

Duane S Juang, Joshua M Lang, David J Beebe

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Article in Lab on a chip, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Duane S JuangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA. djbeebe@wisc.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-6832-4277
Joshua M LangDepartment of Medicine, Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA.
David J BeebeDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA. djbeebe@wisc.edu.
University of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

UW COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER SUPPORTP30CA014520 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI AMY TRENTHAM-DIETZ · 1985 to 2026
$142.6M
University of Wisconsin Institute for Clinical and Translational ResearchUL1TR002373 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI ELIZABETH S BURNSIDE, Allan R. Brasier · 2017 to 2026
$75.9M
Enhancing Epigenetic Analysis Of Rare Cells With Multi-Phase MicrofluidicsR01CA247479 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI BEEBE, DAVID J, LANG, JOSHUA MICHAEL · 2020 to 2024
$3.1M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR002373NCI NIH HHS P30 CA014520NCI NIH HHS R01 CA247479
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The addition of reagents for assays in digital microfluidic (DMF) systems is traditionally done by merging of droplets containing different analytes or reagents in solution. However, this process significantly increases droplet volume after each step, resulting in dilution of the analyte and reagents. Here, we report a new technique for performing reagent additions to aqueous droplets without significantly increasing the droplet's volume: volume-less reagent delivery (VRD). VRD is enabled by a physical phenomenon we call "exclusive liquid repellency" (ELR), which describes an aqueous/oil/solid 3-phase system where the aqueous phase can be fully repelled from a solid phase (contact angle ∼180°). When performing VRD, a reagent of interest in solution is deposited onto the ELR solid surface and allowed to dry. The ELR surface containing the dried reagent is then immersed under oil, followed by introduction of an aqueous droplet. By dragging the aqueous droplet over the spot of dried reagent using paramagnetic particles or

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MicrofluidicsWaterIndicators and ReagentsIndicators and ReagentsWater

Identifiers

PMID34897347
PMCPMC8820037
OpenAlexW4200359978

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