A microfluidic transistor for automatic control of liquids
Kaustav A. Gopinathan; Avanish Mishra; Baris R. Mutlu; Jon F.; Mehmet Toner · 2023 · Nature
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Abstract
Abstract Microfluidics have enabled notable advances in molecular biology 1,2 , synthetic chemistry 3,4 , diagnostics 5,6 and tissue engineering 7 . However, there has long been a critical need in the field to manipulate fluids and suspended matter with the precision, modularity and scalability of electronic circuits 8–10 . Just as the electronic transistor enabled unprecedented advances in the automatic control of electricity on an electronic chip, a microfluidic analogue to the transistor could enable improvements in the automatic control of reagents, droplets and single cells on a microflui
Abstract by Kaustav A. Gopinathan; Avanish Mishra; Baris R. Mutlu; Jon F.; Mehmet Toner, Nature (2023) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1038/s41586-023-06517-3