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DEVICES AND METHOD FOR USING CENTRIPETAL ACCELERATION TO DRIVE FLUID MOVEMENT IN A MICROFLUIDICS SYSTEM WITH ON-BOARD INFORMATICS

  • US 20010055812A1
  • Filed: 12/05/1996
  • Published: 12/27/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/05/1995
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A centripetally-motivated fluid micromanipulation apparatus that is a combination of a microsystem platform, comprising a substrate having a first flat, planar surface and a second flat, planar surface opposite thereto, wherein the first surface comprises a multiplicity of microchannels embedded therein and a sample input means, wherein the sample input means and the microchannels are connected and in fluidic contact, and wherein the second flat, planar surface opposite to the first flat planar surface of the platform is encoded with an eletromagnetically-readable instruction set for controlling rotational speed, duration, or direction of the platform, and a micromanipulation device, comprising a base, a rotating means, a power supply and user interface and operations controlling means, wherein the rotating means is operatively linked to the microsystem platform and in rotational contact therewith wherein a volume of a fluid within the microchannels of the platform is moved through said microchannels by centripetal force arising from rotational motion of the platform for a time and a rotational velocity sufficient to move the fluid through the microchannels.

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