Dual-fiber microfluidic chip for multimodal manipulation of single cells
- 1 January 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Biomicrofluidics
- Vol. 15 (1), 014106
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0039087
Abstract
On-chip single-cell manipulation is imperative in cell biology and it is desirable for a microfluidic chip to have multimodal manipulation capability. Here, we embedded two counter-propagating optical fibers into the microfluidic chip and configured their relative position in space to produce different misalignments. By doing so, we demonstrated multimodal manipulation of single cells, including capture, stretching, translation, orbital revolution, and spin rotation. The rotational manipulation can be in-plane or out-of-plane, providing flexibility and capability to observe the cells from different angles. Based on out-of-plane rotation, we performed a 3D reconstruction of cell morphology and extracted its five geometric parameters as biophysical features. We envision that this type of microfluidic chip configured with dual optical fibers can be helpful in manipulating cells as the upstream process of single-cell analysis.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (61774095)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (21727813)
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