Perpetual sedimentation for the continuous delivery of particulate suspensions.

Lane, Simon I R; Butement, Jonathan; Harrington, Jack; Underwood, Tim; Shrimpton, John; West, Jonathan · Lab Chip · 2019

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Particle sedimentation is deleterious to a tremendous variety of microfluidic applications. Using an open instrumentation approach we show that syringe rotation retains particles in a suspended state, providing a universal solution for the continuous delivery of particulate samples to microfluidic processors.