A continuous on-chip droplet washing platform with high bead recovery by acoustofluidics

• Acoustofluidics is a promising technology for manipulation of fluids and particles in microchannels, and the technology has the ability to sort beads and cells in continuous flow with very high efficiency. Recently acoustofluidics has also been applied in segmental flow for positioning beads inside droplets. Compared with single-phase systems, droplet microfluidics has the advantages of faster reactions, lower cross-contamination and higher throughput. Moreover, the small size of the droplets makes them ideal as cultivation and reaction vials for single cell analysis. However, as the droplets are so small one challenge is to wash the droplets before image analysis. P. Mary et al. developed a microfluidic platform for droplet wash, whichis based on electrocoalescence and droplet break-ups with equal volume. The background noise was decreased significantly, however the recovery of the encapsulated cells was low. Alternative solutions have been presented by H. Lee et al. and S.R. Doonan et al. but as the bead recovery is controlled via magnetophoresis, the technology is only applicable to magnetic samples. Here we present a droplet microfluidic platform that enables background dilution with high bead recovery in a label-free manner using acoustophoresis.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Medicinteknik -- Medicinsk laboratorie- och mätteknik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Medical Engineering -- Medical Laboratory and Measurements Technologies (hsv//eng)

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Droplet dilution

acoustophoresis

pico-injection

microfluidics

electrocoalescence

Teknisk fysik med inriktning mot mikrosystemteknik

Engineering Science with specialization in Microsystems Technology

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