TY - GEN
T1 - Generation of multi-helical microfibers and marble microbeads using orbital-rotation and axial-spin centrifuge
AU - Yasuda, Shoya
AU - Hayakawa, Masayuki
AU - Onoe, Hiroaki
AU - Takinoue, Masahiro
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Dr. Ken Nagai (JAIST), Dr. Masamune Morita (Tokyo Tech.) and Mr. Hao Li for helpful discussions. This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas "Molecular Robotics" (No.24104002) to M.T. from The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT), a Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research to M.T. and H.O. (No.24651159), a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) to M.T. and H.O. (No.26280097) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - We developed a centrifugal microfluidic method for the construction of multi-helical hydrogel microfibers and marble hydrogel microbeads. In this method, we used a centrifugal mixer that can rotate a capillary-based microfluidic device by both 'orbital rotation' and 'axial spin'. By the axial spin, hydrogel fibers were twisted in their generation. We demonstrated this system was also applied to construction of marble microbeads. We believe that this method will promote the construction of complex threedimensional micro-materials and will be applied to cell manipulation, material synthesis, etc.
AB - We developed a centrifugal microfluidic method for the construction of multi-helical hydrogel microfibers and marble hydrogel microbeads. In this method, we used a centrifugal mixer that can rotate a capillary-based microfluidic device by both 'orbital rotation' and 'axial spin'. By the axial spin, hydrogel fibers were twisted in their generation. We demonstrated this system was also applied to construction of marble microbeads. We believe that this method will promote the construction of complex threedimensional micro-materials and will be applied to cell manipulation, material synthesis, etc.
KW - Centrifugal mixer
KW - Centrifuge-based device
KW - Helical microfiber
KW - Hydrogel
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84983372923
T3 - MicroTAS 2015 - 19th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences
SP - 1163
EP - 1165
BT - MicroTAS 2015 - 19th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences
PB - Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society
T2 - 19th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2015
Y2 - 25 October 2015 through 29 October 2015
ER -