A versatile microfluidic device for high throughput production of microparticles and cell microencapsulation

作者:Akbari Samin; Pirbodaghi Tohid; Kamm Roger D; Hammond Paula T*
来源:Lab on a Chip, 2017, 17(12): 2067-2075.
DOI:10.1039/c6lc01568a

摘要

Biocompatible microparticles are valuable tools in biomedical research for applications such as drug delivery, cell transplantation therapy, and analytical assays. However, their translation into clinical research and the pharmaceutical industry has been slow due to the lack of techniques that can produce microparticles with controlled physicochemical properties at high throughput. We introduce a robust microfluidic platform for the production of relatively homogeneous microdroplets at a generation frequency of up to 3.1 MHz, which is about three orders of magnitude higher than the production rate of a conventional microfluidic drop maker. We demonstrated the successful implementation of our device for production of biocompatible microparticles with various crosslinking mechanisms and cell microencapsulation with high cell viability.

  • 出版日期2017-6-21
  • 单位MIT