MICROFLUIDIC SYSTEM WITH VISCOELASTIC FLUID

A system and a method are described for separating particles suspended in a fluid stream according to their weight, size or density, based on their viscoelastic interaction with a suspending fluid. The system may include a particle manipulation stage for manipulating the particles in the sample flui...

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Hauptverfasser:	DUNNE JOHN FRANCIS, GRUMMITT DARYL W, FOSTER JOHN S, HOONEJANI MEHRAN R
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES MEASURING PHYSICS TESTING
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Zusammenfassung:	A system and a method are described for separating particles suspended in a fluid stream according to their weight, size or density, based on their viscoelastic interaction with a suspending fluid. The system may include a particle manipulation stage for manipulating the particles in the sample fluid, an input channel for inputting a sample fluid containing target particles and non-target material, a viscoelastic region that separates particles according to their viscoelastic behavior in the sample fluid upstream of the particle manipulation stage and at least one pickoff channel that removes a subset of the separated particles.