Polymer microparticle arrays from electrodynamically focused microdroplet streams
Author(s) -
Kin C. Ng,
J. V. Ford,
Stephen C. Jacobson,
J. Michael Ramsey,
Michael D. Barnes
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
review of scientific instruments
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.605
H-Index - 165
eISSN - 1089-7623
pISSN - 0034-6748
DOI - 10.1063/1.1150642
Subject(s) - microparticle , polymer , materials science , sorting , nanotechnology , streams , instrumentation (computer programming) , quadrupole , optics , composite material , computer science , physics , atomic physics , programming language , operating system , computer network
We describe instrumentation for forming two-dimensional arrays of polymer microparticles produced from electrodynamically focused microdroplet streams. A single-stage linear quadrupole was used to focus droplets/particles onto silanated glass slides mounted on a computer-driven two-dimensional translation stage. Center-to-center position stability was on the order of 1 μm. Applications to molecular sorting with polymer particles as host carriers are discussed.
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