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摘要
A numerical and experimental investigation is performed into the flow characteristics and mixing performance of three microfluidic polydimethylsiloxane blood plasma mixing devices incorporating square-wave, curved and zigzag microchannels, respectively. For each device, the plasma is introduced into the microfluidic channel under the effects of capillary action alone. Of the three devices, that with the square-wave microchannel is found to yield the best mixing performance, and is therefore selected for design optimization. Four microfluidic micromixers incorporating square-wave microchannels with different widths in the x- and y-directions are fabricated using conventional photolithography techniques. The mixing performance of the four microchannels is investigated both numerically and experimentally. The results show that given an appropriate specification of the microchannel geometry, a mixing efficiency of approximately 76 % can be obtained within 4 s. The practical feasibility of the micromixer is demonstrated by performing prothrombin time (PT) tests using a total liquid volume of 4.0 mu L (2.0 mu L of plasma and 2.0 mu L of PT reagent). It is shown that the mean time required to complete the entire PT test (including loading, mixing and coagulation) is less than 30 s.
- 出版日期2017-3
