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Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST, 335 Gwahangno, Yuseong-gu, Korea
E-mail: jekyun@kaist.ac.kr
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Department of Biological Sciences, KAIST, 335 Gwahangno, Yuseong-gu, Korea
Lab Chip, 2009,9, 199-206
DOI:
10.1039/B811740C
Received
09 Jul 2008,
Accepted
17 Oct 2008
First published online
17 Nov 2008
We demonstrate rapid manipulation and selective concentration of microparticles using AC electrokinetics such as dielectrophoresis (DEP) and AC electro-osmosis (ACEO) in an optoelectrofluidic platform based on a liquid crystal display (LCD). When 10 V bias at 10 kHz was applied to the optoelectrofluidic device, only the 1 µm-diameter polystyrene particles were concentrated into the projected LCD image patterns and closely packed, forming the crystalline structure by ACEO flow, while the 6 µm-diameter particles were repelled by negative DEP forces. We have characterized this frequency-dependency of the optoelectrofluidic particle behavior according to the particle diameter. On the basis of these results, we can rapidly concentrate the 1 µm-diameter particles and separate them from the 6 µm particles, by applying an AC signal of 10 kHz frequency. This novel technique can be applied to rapidly concentrate, separate and pattern micro-/nanoparticles in many biological and chemical applications.
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