A hybrid axisymmetric flow-focusing device for monodisperse picoliter droplets

作者:Morimoto Yuya; Kuribayashi Shigetomi Kaori; Takeuchi Shoji*
来源:Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 2011, 21(5): 054031.
DOI:10.1088/0960-1317/21/5/054031

摘要

A combination of photolithography and stereolithography was successfully used to fabricate a hybrid axisymmetric flow-focusing device (h-AFFD) that produces monodisperse picoliter droplets. The h-AFFD achieved the same level of hydrodynamic performance as a monolithic AFFD produced by only stereolithography from acrylic resin. Since the h-AFFD had a narrower orifice (50 or 100 mu m in diameter), created in an SU-8 sheet by photolithography, than the monolithic AFFD, we were able to produce picoliter droplets. We also succeeded in producing monodisperse droplets encapsulating a single cell without any surface modification.

  • 出版日期2011-5