Rapid and continuous magnetic separation in droplet microfluidic devices

• Published in: Lab on a chip Vol. 15; no. 3
• Main Authors: Brouzes, Eric, Kruse, Travis, Kimmerling, Robert, Strey, Helmut H.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Royal Society of Chemistry 03.12.2014
• Subjects: 60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES; PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

Here, we present a droplet microfluidic method to extract molecules of interest from a droplet in a rapid and continuous fashion. We accomplish this by first marginalizing functionalized super-paramagnetic beads within the droplet using a magnetic field, and then splitting the droplet into one dropl...