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Microscopic pumps made from trapped bacteria
02 Nov 2015
Scientists in China have trapped bacteria in 3D-printed structures and used them to pump materials along customised paths.
Transporting materials in the microscopic world is complex. Conventionally, macroscopic pumps drive motion, but pumps are bulky and not ideal for miniaturisation. Now, Hepeng Zhang and colleagues at Shanghai Jiao Tong University have tackled this problem using native inhabitants of the microscopic world – motile bacteria. Not only are they already present in the media, but their energy conversion efficiency is estimated to be greater than existing man-made micro-motors.
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Using confined bacteria as building blocks to generate fluid flow
Zhiyong Gao, He Li, Xiao Chen and H. P. Zhang
Lab Chip, 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5LC01093D
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Microfluidic device lets the drop beat
13 Oct 2015
Scientists in Switzerland have incorporated pulsing human heart tissue into a microfluidic device to make a miniscule model of a living system that could be used to test new drugs.
The hanging drops are connected through 200μm-wide channels
‘This is one of the most interesting recent developments in the field of microfluidic systems,’ comments Wouter van der Wijngaart, who heads up the research into micro- and nanofluidic systems at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. ‘This type of system has the potential to become the de facto workhorse in the field of 3D microtissue culturing.’
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Adding the ‘heart’ to hanging drop networks for microphysiological multi-tissue experiments*
Saeed Rismani Yazdi, Amir Shadmani, Sebastian C. Bürgel, Patrick M. Misun, Andreas Hierlemann and Olivier Frey
Lab Chip, 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5LC01000D
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In June 2015, our most downloaded Lab on a Chip articles were:
Shia-Yen Teh, Robert Lin, Lung-Hsin Hung and Abraham P. Lee
DOI: 10.1039/B715524G
Ali Kemal Yetisen, Muhammad Safwan Akram and Christopher R. Lowe
DOI: 10.1039/C3LC50169H
Russell H. Cole, Niek de Lange, Zev J. Gartner and Adam R. Abate
DOI: 10.1039/C5LC00333D
Ching-Hui Lin, Yi-Hsing Hsiao, Hao-Chen Chang, Chuan-Feng Yeh, Cheng-Kun He, Eric M. Salm, Chihchen Chen, Ing-Ming Chiu and Chia-Hsien Hsu
DOI: 10.1039/C5LC00541H
Friedrich Schuler, Frank Schwemmer, Martin Trotter, Simon Wadle, Roland Zengerle, Felix von Stetten and Nils Paust
DOI: 10.1039/C5LC00291E
Mei He, Jennifer Crow, Marc Roth, Yong Zeng and Andrew K. Godwin
DOI: 10.1039/C4LC00662C
Joost F. Swennenhuis, Arjan G. J. Tibbe, Michiel Stevens, Madhumohan R. Katika, Joost van Dalum, Hien Duy Tong, Cees J. M. van Rijn and Leon W. M. M. Terstappen
DOI: 10.1039/C5LC00304K
A. Liga, A. D. B. Vliegenthart, W. Oosthuyzen, J. W. Dear and M. Kersaudy-Kerhoas
DOI: 10.1039/C5LC00240K
A. Wasay and D. Sameoto
DOI: 10.1039/C5LC00342C
Ivo Leibacher, Peter Reichert and Jürg Dual
DOI: 10.1039/C5LC00083A
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