Facile actuation of aqueous droplets on a superhydrophobic surface using magnetotactic bacteria for digital microfluidic applications.

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2019
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Abstract
Magnetic actuation provides a low-cost, simple method for droplet manipulation on a digital microfluidic platform. The impetus to move the droplets on a low friction surface can come from internal superparamagnetic particles or paramagnetic salts. Recently, the use of microbes for bio-actuation has been established, where the thrust produced by the microbes can be exploited to exert the force required for droplet movement. This study presents biologically-driven magnetic actuation of droplets on a superhydrophobic surface using magnetotactic bacteria (MTB). MTB-droplets were impelled along various trajectories such as rectangular and figure-of-eight-shaped paths. Droplets were reproducibly actuated with speeds up of to 30 mm s. We demonstrated the ability to sequentially merge and mix multiple droplets by merging a 10 μL MTB droplet with two 4 μL colored droplets. The reorientation of MTB in the droplet enhanced mixing rate of the merged fluids by ∼40% compared with the control experiment where no actuation was used. Biologically-driven magnetic actuation was compared with actuation by superparamagnetic particles and paramagnetic salts, in terms of controllability and speed. MTB droplet was moved with the same average speed as other two methods and showed higher response time as the magnet acceleration increased. Lastly, MTB were used to perform a phosphatase assay using endogenous enzyme. The relative absorbance at 405 nm, indicating the production of the yellow product, increased over time and levels off after 75 min.
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Authors Rismani Yazdi, Saeed;Agrawal, Prashant;Morales, Erick;Stevens, Corey A;Oropeza, Laura;Davies, Peter L;Escobedo, Carlos;Oleschuk, Richard D;
Journal analytica chimica acta
Year 2019
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S0003-2670(19)30947-X
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lab-on-a-chip digital microfluidics magnetotactic bacteria (mtb) superhydrophobic surface

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