[14p-P23-1~11] English session: Joint symposium on Nanobiotechnology and Biosensing

▲ [14p-P23-4] Single Particle Compartmentalization in the Designed Microfluidic Chip

〇(P)Wilfred Espulgar¹, Masato Saito¹, Eiichi Tamiya¹ (1.Osaka Univ.)

Keywords:microfluidics, particle trapping, cells

One of the major trends in microfluidics is single particle trapping. However, for cell applications, solely trapping the cell in ideal sites is not enough to claim that the behavior that we can observe is based on a single cell alone. Effects of neighboring cells or chemical reactants in the flowing media could stimulate such behavior which may lead to false interpretation of the data. Thus, isolation of single cells in desired trap sites is much more ideal. This report; therefore, presents the design and operation of the designed microfluidic chip for trapping particles or pairs of particles and isolating them into compartments. Success of this study coud aid in developing devices for high-throughput analysis and related studies.