Issue 3, 2017

Motor-assisted chip-in-a-tube (MACT): a new 2- and 3-dimensional centrifugal microfluidic platform for biomedical applications

Abstract

Currently, centrifuge apparatus is primarily an end-point sample processing piece of equipment. The lack of real-time active control has imposed an inherent limitation such that many delicate sample processing steps requiring immediate and accurate intervention have never been possible. We report herein a motor-assisted chip-in-a-tube (MACT) platform in which a microfluidic chip placed inside a common centrifuge canister can be rotated through wireless control in order to manipulate the centrifugal force vector in a 3-dimensional (3D) manner. As a demonstration experiment, we have used our MACT prototype to perform the operation for two common biomedical procedures, namely human blood plasma separation and E. coli plasmid DNA extraction. This simple, yet highly effective and versatile approach may serve as a generic one-for-all platform for a wide range of common laboratory experiments and bioassay applications.

Graphical abstract: Motor-assisted chip-in-a-tube (MACT): a new 2- and 3-dimensional centrifugal microfluidic platform for biomedical applications

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
17 Sep 2016
Accepted
09 Dec 2016
First published
09 Dec 2016

Lab Chip, 2017,17, 474-483

Motor-assisted chip-in-a-tube (MACT): a new 2- and 3-dimensional centrifugal microfluidic platform for biomedical applications

M. Tang, J. Loo, Y. Wang, X. Zhang, H. Kwok, M. Hui, C. C. Leung, S. Kong, G. Wang and H. Ho, Lab Chip, 2017, 17, 474 DOI: 10.1039/C6LC01169A

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