Chemical reaction device, chemical reaction system and chemical reaction method

• Main Authors: KOHARA YOSHINOBU, OKANO KAZUNORI, NODA HIDEYUKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 20.01.2005
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: APPARATUS FOR ENZYMOLOGY OR MICROBIOLOGY; BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CULTURE MEDIA; ENZYMOLOGY; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MEASURING; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; PHYSICS; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; SPIRITS; TESTING; VINEGAR; WINE

A chemical reaction device is provided for a chemical reaction between molecules immobilized on a solid phase and molecules in a solution, and a chemical analysis device is also provided to capture molecules in the solution by molecules immobilized on the solid phase through a chemical reaction and subsequent measurement of the captured molecules. Reaction efficiency as well as sample throughput are thereby improved. The chemical reaction device and the chemical analysis device use a channel of a microfluidic device for a reaction vessel, and at least a particular molecule is immobilized on an interior surface and a fixed structure or a non-fixed obstacle against a flow is provided in the channel. In a typical reaction vessel having an enzyme immobilized on an interior surface of a capillary and glass beads functioning as an obstacle for the flow filled in the channel of the capillary, a reaction solution can move either in one direction or back and forth in two directions to thereby undergo a reaction with the enzyme immobilized on the interior surface. The flow of the reaction solution is not a laminar flow so that a reaction between the particular molecule immobilized and the reaction solution proceeds at high efficiency.