論文

査読有り 国際誌
2021年3月3日

Tough, permeable and biocompatible microfluidic devices formed through the buckling delamination of soft hydrogel films.

Lab on a chip
  • Riku Takahashi
  • ,
  • Hiroki Miyazako
  • ,
  • Aya Tanaka
  • ,
  • Yuko Ueno
  • ,
  • Masumi Yamaguchi

記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1039/d0lc01275k

Microchannels in soft materials play an important role in developing movable, deformable, and biocompatible fluidic systems for applications in various fields. Intensively investigated approaches to create microscale channel architectures use mechanical instability in soft materials, which can provide intricate yet ordered architectures with low cost and high throughput. Here, for microchannel fabrication, we demonstrate the use of swelling-driven buckle delamination of hydrogels, which is a mechanical instability pattern found in compressed film/substrate layer composites. By spatially controlling interfacial bonding between a thin polyacrylamide (PAAm) gel film and glass substrate, swelling-driven compressive stress induces buckle delamination at programmed positions, resulting in the formation of continuous hollow paths as microchannels. Connecting flow tubes with a 3D-printed connecter provides a deformable microfluidic device, enabling pressure-driven flows without leakage from the connecter and rupture of the channels. Furthermore, by stacking less-swellable bulk gels on the device, we obtained a tough, permeable, and biocompatible microfluidic device. Finally, we performed a cell culture on the device and chemical stimulation to cells through the diffusion of molecules from the microchannels. The results of this work shed light on designing pressure sensitive/resistant microfluidic systems based on diverse hydrogels with intricate 3D morphologies and will be useful for applications in the fields of bioanalysis, biomimetics, tissue engineering, and cell biology.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/d0lc01275k
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33656028
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1039/d0lc01275k
  • PubMed ID : 33656028

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