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An Anti‐Clogging 3D Porous Membrane for Sorting and Patterning of Micro‐Entities
Author(s) -
Ranjan Shashi,
Selvan Subramanian Tamil,
Zhang Yong
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
advanced healthcare materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.288
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 2192-2659
pISSN - 2192-2640
DOI - 10.1002/adhm.201200023
Subject(s) - clogging , membrane , sorting , porosity , materials science , funnel , nanotechnology , porous medium , separation (statistics) , computer science , chemistry , engineering , composite material , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , archaeology , machine learning , history , programming language
A 3D porous membrane containing pyramidal microstructures around funnel‐like pores is demonstrated as a unique anti‐clogging porous membrane for high efficiency sorting and patterning of cells/beads. The membrane exhibits four interesting features: anti‐clogging, patterning of micro‐entities of different sizes, bi‐directional separation and simultaneous separation and patterning of micro‐entities.