TY - GEN
T1 - On-The-Fly Rapid-Cooling Gelation of Microgel Beads in Centrifugal Microfluidic Device with Liquid Nitrogen
AU - Murayama, Tomomi
AU - Tsuchiya, Mio
AU - Yoshida, Koki
AU - Kurashina, Yuta
AU - Onoe, Hiroaki
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partly supported by JKA and its promotion funds from KEIRIN RACE from JKA, Japan.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/1/25
Y1 - 2021/1/25
N2 - This paper describes a new fabrication method of microgel beads crosslinked by rapid temperature change using a centrifugal microfluidic device with a heating system and liquid nitrogen. Previously, materials for fabricating microgel beads with centrifugal microfluidic systems is limited to only sodium alginate solution. By using our proposed method, microgel beads could be fabricated by rapidly cooling pre-gel droplet ejected by centrifugal force. We succeeded in fabricating agarose microgel beads by rapid gelation in the liquid nitrogen. Our fabrication method will expand the variety of materials for the centrifugal microfluidic microgel beads fabrication method and possible applications including biosensors, tissue engineering and drug delivery systems.
AB - This paper describes a new fabrication method of microgel beads crosslinked by rapid temperature change using a centrifugal microfluidic device with a heating system and liquid nitrogen. Previously, materials for fabricating microgel beads with centrifugal microfluidic systems is limited to only sodium alginate solution. By using our proposed method, microgel beads could be fabricated by rapidly cooling pre-gel droplet ejected by centrifugal force. We succeeded in fabricating agarose microgel beads by rapid gelation in the liquid nitrogen. Our fabrication method will expand the variety of materials for the centrifugal microfluidic microgel beads fabrication method and possible applications including biosensors, tissue engineering and drug delivery systems.
KW - Agarose
KW - Centrifugal force
KW - Gelling by temperature
KW - Heater device
KW - Microgel beads
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U2 - 10.1109/MEMS51782.2021.9375291
DO - 10.1109/MEMS51782.2021.9375291
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85103454023
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)
SP - 1027
EP - 1030
BT - 34th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, MEMS 2021
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 34th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, MEMS 2021
Y2 - 25 January 2021 through 29 January 2021
ER -