Issue 20, 2009

Antifouling coatings for optoelectronic tweezers

Abstract

Optoelectronic tweezers enables parallel manipulation of individual single cells using optical addressing and optically induced dielectrophoretic force. This provides a useful platform for performing a variety of biological functions, such as cell manipulation, cell sorting, and cell electroporation. However, in order to obtain more reliable cellular manipulation, especially of adherent mammalian cells, antifouling coatings need to be used to avoid non-specific cell adherence. Two antifouling coatings are discussed here, which can reduce the amount of non-specific adherence by as much as a factor of 30.

Graphical abstract: Antifouling coatings for optoelectronic tweezers

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
20 Apr 2009
Accepted
16 Jul 2009
First published
22 Jul 2009

Lab Chip, 2009,9, 2952-2957

Antifouling coatings for optoelectronic tweezers

A. N. K. Lau, A. T. Ohta, H. L. Phan, H. Hsu, A. Jamshidi, P. Chiou and M. C. Wu, Lab Chip, 2009, 9, 2952 DOI: 10.1039/B907840A

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