A microfluidic transistor for automatic control of liquids.

ABSTRACT: Microfluidics have enabled notable advances in molecular biology^1,2, synthetic chemistry^3,4, diagnostics^5,6 and tissue engineering⁷. However, there has long been a critical need in the field to manipulate fluids and suspended matter with the precision, modularity and scalability of electronic circuits^8-10. Just as the electronic transistor enabled unprecedented advances in the automatic control of electricity on an electronic chip, a microfluidic analogue to the transistor could enable improvements in the automatic control of reagents, droplets and single cells on a microfluidic chip. Previous works on creating a microfluidic analogue to the electronic transistor^11-13 did not replicate the transistor's saturation behaviour,

SUBMITTER: Gopinathan KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10600001 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature