Issue 15, 2023

A nanoparticle-coated microfluidic chip for automated, non-destructive extraction of encapsulated DNA in data storage

Abstract

DNA data storage based on tubes as physical storage carriers has been developed to solve the problem of the exponential growth of information. Compact disk (CD)-microfluidics that employs centrifugal forces for fluidic manipulation offers an attractive alternative that integrates complex assays onto a miniaturized platform to result in automation for DNA data storage. In this work, we develop a CD microfluidic chip modified with nanoparticles for accurate fluid flow control. The nanoparticle coating turns microchannels into valves or pumps, which reduces the error in fluidic control from 62% to 6%. Based on the nanoparticle coating, the chip integrates demineralization, nucleic acid amplification, and re-mineralization functions for automated, non-destructive information extraction. We prove the functionality of the chip with mineralized DNA data. Compared to purely manual operation and traditional amplification techniques, the microfluidic chip saves human power and time consumption, demonstrating an essential contribution to the development of DNA data storage.

Graphical abstract: A nanoparticle-coated microfluidic chip for automated, non-destructive extraction of encapsulated DNA in data storage

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
23 11 2022
Accepted
07 2 2023
First published
11 2 2023
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Sci., 2023,14, 3973-3981

A nanoparticle-coated microfluidic chip for automated, non-destructive extraction of encapsulated DNA in data storage

C. Geng, S. Liu and X. Jiang, Chem. Sci., 2023, 14, 3973 DOI: 10.1039/D2SC06466A

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