Ferrofluid plug as valve and actuator for whole-cell PCR on chip

• Main Authors: Lok, Khoi Seng, Kwok, Yien Chian, Lee, Peter Peng Foo, Nguyen, Nam-Trung
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/94209; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/8284
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Ferrofluid plug was first used as valve and actuator to circumvent the evaporation of aqueous fluid in LOC. Moreover, this dynamic plug catered for aqueous fluid expansion during its heating in the microchannel. Whole-cell polymerase chain reaction (PCR) protocol was successfully implemented in a ma...