A Portable, Negative-Pressure Actuated, Dynamically Tunable Microfluidic Droplet Generator.

ABSTRACT: Droplet microfluidics utilize a monodisperse water-in-oil emulsion, with an expanding toolbox offering a wide variety of operations on a range of droplet sizes at high throughput. However, translation of these capabilities into applications for non-expert laboratories to fully harness the inherent potential of microscale manipulations is woefully trailing behind. One major obstacle is that droplet microfluidic setups often rely on custom fabricated devices, costly liquid actuators, and are not easily set up and operated by non-specialists. This impedes wider adoption of droplet technologies in, e.g., the life sciences. Here, we demonstrate an easy-to-use minimal droplet production setup with a small footprint, built exclusively from inexpensive commercially sourced parts, powered and contr

SUBMITTER: Trossbach M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9697964 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature