Supported Membranes Meet Flat Fluidics: Monitoring Dynamic Cell Adhesion on Pump-Free Microfluidics Chips Functionalized with Supported Membranes Displaying Mannose Domains

In this paper we demonstrate the combination of supported membranes and so-called flat microfluidics, which enables one to manipulate liquids on flat chip surfaces via “inverse piezoelectric effect”. Here, an alternating external electric field applied to the inter-digital transducers excites a surf...

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Main Authors: Motomu Tanaka, Achim Wixforth, Zeno Guttenberg, Jochen Oelke, Thomas Kaindl, Andreea Pasc
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2013-02-01
Series:Materials
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/6/2/669