Microrobot-in-glass for dynamic motion analysis and wider in vitro applications

Micro & nano letters

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Hugo Salmon¹  Laurent Couraud²  Christophe Roblin²  Gilgueng Hwang² 

[1] Department of Biomedical Engineering, McGill University;Centre for Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies, Université Paris Sud

关键词: glass;    polymers;    microfluidics;    motion control;    microrobots;    microfabrication;    hydrodynamics;    stable surface;    physical environments;    mapping surfaces;    microrobot design;    high precision platform;    high-frequency hydrodynamics analysis;    organosilicon polymers;    inert surface;    smooth surface;    glass substrate;    conventional polymer chips;    permanently sealed glass microfluidic chip;    originally integrated microrobot;    surface forces;    medicine research;    microrobots;    vitro applications;    dynamic motion analysis;    microrobot-in-glass;   

DOI  :  10.1049/mnl.2019.0006

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: Wiley

【 摘 要 】

Microrobots could become a key enabler in life science and medicine research as well as industrial applications. Although they provide high-performance tools for a wide range of applications, their environment and particularly surface forces induce significant challenge for their control. This work introduces an originally integrated microrobot in a permanently sealed glass microfluidic chip. Compared to conventional polymer chips, the glass substrate offers a smooth, stable, and inert surface. It also avoids the typical contamination and fast degradation of organosilicon polymers. In this environment, they demonstrate high-frequency hydrodynamics analysis and control. This strategy offers a high precision platform to study microrobot design and hydrodynamics as well as a transducer module for mapping surfaces and sensing interaction with physical environments.

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