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  • Title: Sheathless hydrophoretic particle focusing in a microchannel with exponentially increasing obstacle arrays.
    Author: Choi S, Park JK.
    Journal: Anal Chem; 2008 Apr 15; 80(8):3035-9. PubMed ID: 18355090.
    Abstract:
    We present a novel microfluidic device with exponentially increasing obstacle arrays to enable sheathless particle focusing. The anisotropic fluidic resistance of slant obstacles generates transverse flows, along which particles are focused to one sidewall. In the successive channel with exponentially increasing widths, bent obstacles extended from the slant obstacles increase the focusing efficiency of the particles. With the device, we achieved the focusing efficiency of 76%, 94%, and 98% for 6, 10, and 15 microm beads, respectively. The focusing efficiency of the particles can be further improved in the devices with more extension steps. In addition, using the microfluidic devices with the symmetric structure of the slant and bent obstacles, we achieved complete focusing of biological cells to the centerline of a channel within 1.7% coefficient of variation. The results demonstrated the sheathless hydrophoretic focusing of microparticles and cells with the advantages of a sheathless method, passive operation, single channel, and flow rate independence.
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