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Superparamagnetic hydrophobic particles as shell material for digital microfluidic droplets and proof-of-principle reaction assessments with immobilized laccase

  • In the field of biotechnology and molecular biology, the use of small liquid volumes has significant advantages. In particular, screening and optimization runs with acceptable amounts of expensive and hardly available catalysts, reagents, or biomolecules are feasible with microfluidic technologies. The presented new microfluidic system is based on the inclusion of small liquid volumes by a protective shell of magnetizable microparticles. Hereby, discrete aqueous microreactor drops with volumes of 1–30 μL can be formed on a simple planar surface. A digital movement and manipulation of the microreactor is performed by overlapping magnetic forces. The magnetic forces are generated by an electrical coil matrix positioned below a glass plate. With the new platform technology, several discrete reaction compartments can be moved simultaneously on one surface. Due to the magnetic fields, the reactors can even be merged to initiate reactions by mixing or positioned above surface-immobilized catalysts and then opened by magnetic force. Comparative synthesis routes of the magnetizable shell particles and superhydrophobic glass slides including their performance and stability with the reaction platform are described. The influence of diffusive mass transport during the catalyzed reaction is discussed by evaluation finite element model of the microreactor. Furthermore, a first model dye reaction of the enzyme laccase has been established.

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Author:Huschyar Al-Kaidy, Nils TippkötterORCiD
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/elsc.201400124
Parent Title (English):Engineering in Life Sciences
Publisher:Wiley-VCH
Place of publication:Weinheim
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2016
Date of the Publication (Server):2017/07/10
Volume:16
Issue:3
First Page:222
Last Page:230
Link:https://doi.org/10.1002/elsc.201400124
Zugriffsart:campus
Institutes:FH Aachen / Fachbereich Chemie und Biotechnologie
collections:Verlag / Wiley-VCH