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- Ohlin, Mathias, et al.
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Improved positioning and detectability of microparticles in droplet microfluidics using two-dimensional acoustophoresis
- 2017
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In: Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. - : IOP Publishing. - 0960-1317 .- 1361-6439. ; 27:8
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We have fabricated a silicon-glass two-phase droplet microfluidic system capable of generating sub 100 μm-sized, ø = (74 ± 2) μm, spherical droplets at rates of up to hundreds of hertz. By implementing a two-dimensional (2D) acoustophoresis particle-positioning method, we show a fourfold improvement in both vertical and lateral particle positioning inside the droplets compared to unactuated operation. The efficiency of the system has been optimized by incorporating aluminum matching layers in the transducer design permitting biocompatible operational temperatures (<37 °C). Furthermore, by using acoustic actuation, (99.8 ± 0.4)% of all encapsulated microparticles can be detected compared to only (79.0 ± 5.1)% for unactuated operation. In our experiments we observed a strong ordering of the microparticles in distinct patterns within the droplet when using 2D acoustophoresis; to explain the origin of these patterns we simulated numerically the fluid flow inside the droplets and compared with the experimental findings.
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- Ohlin, Mathias, et al.
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Influence of acoustic streaming on ultrasonic particle manipulation in a 100-well ring-transducer microplate
- 2013
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In: Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. - : IOP Publishing. - 0960-1317 .- 1361-6439. ; 23:3, s. 035008-
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We characterize and quantify the performance of ultrasonic particle aggregation and positioning in a 100-well microplate. We analyze the result when operating a planar ultrasonic ring transducer at different single actuation frequencies in the range 2.20-2.40 MHz, and compare with the result obtained from different schemes of frequency-modulated actuation. Compared to our previously used wedge transducer design, the ring transducer has a larger contact area facing the microplate, resulting in lower temperature increase for a given actuation voltage. Furthermore, we analyze the dynamics of acoustic streaming occurring simultaneously with the particle trapping in the wells of the microplate, and we define an adaptive ultrasonic actuation scheme for optimizing both efficiency and robustness of the method. The device is designed as a tool for ultrasound-mediated cell aggregation and positioning. This is a method for high-resolution optical characterization of time-dependent cellular processes at the level of single cells. In this paper, we demonstrate how to operate our device in order to optimize the scanning time of 3D confocal microscopy with the aim to perform high-resolution time-lapse imaging of cells or cell-cell interactions in a highly parallel manner.
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- Werr, Gabriel, 1991-, et al.
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Integrated thin film resistive sensors for in situ temperature measurements in an acoustic trap
- 2019
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In: Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. - : IOP PUBLISHING LTD. - 0960-1317 .- 1361-6439. ; 29:9, s. 140-141
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This work presents an acoustic trap with integrated thin film sensors to monitor temperature variations during operation. The acoustic trap is wet-etched in glass with a thermally bonded glass lid and the thin-film sensors are integrated during fabrication. We evaluated the performance of the integrated temperature sensors and measured a temperature sensitivity of +/- 0.01 degrees C and confirmed that the read-out of the thin film sensors was not affected neither by the ionic conductivity of the solution nor the addition of microparticles into the acoustic trap. From the experiments we observed a temperature increase of the acoustic trap during operation as a result of the dissipative heating of the the piezoelectric element used to actuate the trap. We also showed that when external convective cooling was applied to the system, the temperature increase of the acoustic trap was higher than the temperature increase of the piezoelectric element itself. This shows the importance of using integrated temperature sensors in acoustic trapping to monitor the local environmental conditions.
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- Iranmanesh, Ida, et al.
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Acoustic micro-vortexing of fluids, particles and cells in disposable microfluidic chips
- 2016
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In: Biomedical microdevices (Print). - : Springer. - 1387-2176 .- 1572-8781. ; 18:4
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We demonstrate an acoustic platform for microvortexing in disposable polymer microfluidic chips with small-volume (20 mu l) reaction chambers. The described method is demonstrated for a variety of standard vortexing functions, including mixing of fluids, re-suspension of a pellet of magnetic beads collected by a magnet placed on the chip, and lysis of cells for DNA extraction. The device is based on a modified Langevin-type ultrasonic transducer with an exponential horn for efficient coupling into the microfluidic chip, which is actuated by a low-cost fixed-frequency electronic driver board. The transducer is optimized by numerical modelling, and different demonstrated vortexing functions are realized by actuating the transducer for varying times; from fractions of a second for fluid mixing, to half a minute for cell lysis and DNA extraction. The platform can be operated during 1 min below physiological temperatures with the help of a PC fan, a Peltier element and an aluminum heat sink acting as the chip holder. As a proof of principle for sample preparation applications, we demonstrate on-chip cell lysis and DNA extraction within 25 s. The method is of interest for automating and chip-integrating sample preparation procedures in various biological assays.
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- Wiklund, Martin, et al.
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Ultrasound-Induced Cell-Cell Interaction Studies in a Multi-Well Microplate
- 2014
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In: Micromachines. - : MDPI AG. - 2072-666X. ; 5:1, s. 27-49
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Research review (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This review describes the use of ultrasound for inducing and retaining cell-cell contact in multi-well microplates combined with live-cell fluorescence microscopy. This platform has been used for studying the interaction between natural killer (NK) cells and cancer cells at the level of individual cells. The review includes basic principles of ultrasonic particle manipulation, design criteria when building a multi-well microplate device for this purpose, biocompatibility aspects, and finally, two examples of biological applications: Dynamic imaging of the inhibitory immune synapse, and studies of the heterogeneity in killing dynamics of NK cells interacting with cancer cells.
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