Microfluidic droplet sorting with a high frequency ultrasound beam
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- Title
- Microfluidic droplet sorting with a high frequency ultrasound beam
- Authors
- Lee, C; Lee, J; Kim, HH; Teh, SY; Lee, A; Chung, IY; Park, JY; Shung, KK
- Date Issued
- 2012-08
- Publisher
- AROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
- Abstract
- This paper presents experimental results demonstrating the feasibility of high frequency ultrasonic sensing and sorting for screening single oleic acid (lipid or oil) droplets under continuous flow in a microfluidic channel. In these experiments, hydrodynamically focused lipid droplets of two different diameters (50 mu m and 100 mu m) are centered along the middle of the channel, which is filled with deionized (DI) water. A 30 MHz lithium niobate (LiNbO3) transducer, placed outside the channel, first transmits short sensing pulses to non-invasively determine the acoustic scattering properties of the individual droplets passing through the beam's focus. Integrated backscatter (IB) coefficients, utilized as a sorting criterion, are measured by analyzing the received echo signals from each droplet. When the IB values corresponding to 100 mu m droplets are obtained, a custom-built LabVIEW panel commands the transducer to emit sinusoidal burst signals to commence the sorting operation. The number of droplets tested for the sorting is 139 for 50 mu m droplets and 95 for 100 mu m droplets. The sensing efficiencies are estimated to be 98.6% and 99.0%, respectively. The sorting is carried out by applying acoustic radiation forces to 100 mu m droplets to direct them towards the upper sheath flow, thus separating them from the centered droplet flow. The sorting efficiencies are 99.3% for 50 mu m droplets and 85.3% for 100 mu m droplets. The results suggest that this proposed technique has the potential to be further developed into a cost-effective and efficient cell/microparticle sorting instrument.
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/36637
- DOI
- 10.1039/C2LC21123H
- ISSN
- 0003-6951
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- Lab on a Chip, vol. 12, no. 15, page. 2736 - 2742, 2012-08
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