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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025

High-Density Microfluidic Chip with Vertical Structure for Digital PCR.

Peng Sun, Huaqing Si, Gangwei Xu, Dongping Wu

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Authors and funding

4 authors.

Peng SunSchool of Information Technology, Luoyang Normal University, Luoyang 471934, China.
Huaqing SiState Key Laboratory of ASIC and System, School of Microelectronics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
Gangwei XuShanghai Turtle Technology Company Limited, Shanghai 200439, China.
Dongping WuState Key Laboratory of ASIC and System, School of Microelectronics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.

Funding

Key Research and Development Special Project of Henan Province 251111320500Key Research Projects of Higher Education Institutions in Henan Province 24A510010Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province 242300420692Science and Technology Research Project of Henan Province 252102210207
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Digital PCR, as a nucleic acid absolute quantification method at the single-molecule level, has been widely applied in early cancer screening, single-cell analysis, and other biomedical fields. However, existing digital PCR methods still suffer from high costs, complex operations, and low detection dynamic range, which limit their applications. In the study, we developed a microfluidic chip-based digital PCR with a high-density vertical structure using PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane) flexible material. The chip features a three-layer structure of glass-PDMS-glass, with the PDMS structural layer containing 30,000 reaction chambers, each with a volume of 0.713 nL. This vertical-structured chip can increase the total volume and the total number of chambers by 50% without changing the chip area and chamber volume, thereby significantly enhancing dynamic range and sensitivity of the chip detection. This chip is theoretically capable of achieving a nucleic acid detection dynamic range close to 10

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Lab-On-A-Chip DevicesMicrofluidic Analytical TechniquesPolymerase Chain ReactionDimethylpolysiloxanesDNAHumansMicrofluidicsProto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)baysilonDimethylpolysiloxanesDNAProto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)detection accuracydigital PCRdynamic rangemicrofluidic chipvertical structure

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PMID40942814
PMCPMC12431553

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