A novel approach to dielectrophoresis using carbon electrodes
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- Title
- A novel approach to dielectrophoresis using carbon electrodes
- Author
- Martinez-Duarte, Rodrigo; Renaud, Philippe; Madou, Mark
- Keywords
- 3-D; Carbon; Dielectrophoresis; High throughput; Sorting
- Issue Date
- 2011-09
- Publisher
- WILEY-BLACKWELL
- Citation
- ELECTROPHORESIS, v.32, no.17, pp.2385 - 2392
- Abstract
- Carbon-electrode dielectrophoresis (carbon-DEP) is demonstrated here as an alternative to more traditional DEP techniques. Carbon-DEP combines advantages of metal-electrode and insulator-based DEP by using low-cost fabrication techniques and low voltages for particle manipulation. The use of 3-D electrodes is proved to yield significant advantages over the use of traditional planar electrodes. This paper details the fabrication of dense arrays of tall high aspect ratio carbon electrodes on a transparent fused-silica substrate. The shrinkage of the SU-8 structures during carbonization is characterized and a design tool for future devices is provided. Applications of carbon electrodes in DEP are then detailed and include particle positioning, high-throughput filtering and cell focusing using positive-DEP. Manipulated cells include Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Drosophila melanogaster. The advantages and disadvantages of carbon-DEP are discussed at the end of this work.
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- DOI
- 10.1002/elps.201100059
- ISSN
- 0173-0835
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