UCLA’s Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging
and Professor CJ Kim in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, have developed a Digital
MircoFluidic Device to apply to Mircroscale
chemical synthesis.


“EWOD chips enable programmable control of liquids and thus a single chip design may be capable of supporting a wide range of reactions and assays with only software changes,” van Dam concludes. “By not having to produce a different chip for each application, cost could be substantially reduced.”

More information: Micro-chemical synthesis of molecular probes on an electronic microfluidic device. PNAS January 17, 2012 vol. 109 no. 3 690-695, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1117566109
Copyright 2012 PhysOrg.com.

[link to www.physorg.com]