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APS March Meeting 2011 Dallas, Texas http://www.aps.org/meetings/march/index.cfm i Monday, March 21, 2011 8:00AM - 11:00AM — Session A9 DFD: Micro-fluidics D220 8:00AM A9.00001 Hydrodynamic resistance of confined cells in rectangular microchannels ZEINA S. KHAN, SIVA A. VANAPALLI, Texas Tech University, Department of Chemical Engineering — Several microfluidic approaches have been developed to screen suspended cells mechanically in microchannels by exploiting characteristics that are linked to their individual mechanical properties. Typically changes in cell shape due to shear-induced deformation and transit times are reported; while these measurements are qualitative compared to more precise techniques such as atomic force microscopy and micropipette aspiration their advantage lies in throughput, with the ability to screen hundreds to thousands of cells in a minute. We study the potential of a microfluidic cell squeezer to characterize the hydrodynamic resistance of LNCaP prostate cancer cells by measuring dynamical pressure-drop variations along a micrometer-sized channel. The hydrodynamic resistance of the cell introduces an excess pressure drop in the narrow channel which depends on the mechanical stiffness of the cell. We additionally visualize the cell size and assess the influence of cell size on the hydrodynamic resistance of each cell, demonstrating the capability of the microfluidic cell squeezer to yield the hydrodynamic resistance as a mechanical fingerprint of cells. 8:12AM A9.00002 Bio-inspired artificial iriodphores based on capillary origami , SUPONE MAN- AKASETTHARN, J. ASHLEY TAYLOR, TOM KRUPENKIN, University of Wisconsin - Madison — Many marine organisms have evolved complex optical mechanisms of dynamic skin color control that allow them to drastically change their visual appearance. In particular, cephalopods have developed especially effective dynamic color control mechanism based on the mechanical actuation of the micro-scale optical structures, which produce either variable degrees of area coverage by a given color (chromatophores) or variations in spatial orientation of the reflective and diffractive surfaces (iridophores). In this work we de- scribe bio-inspired artificial iridophores based on electrowetting-controlled capillary origami. We describe the developed microfabrication approach, characterize mechanical and optical properties of the obtained microstructures and discuss their electrowetting-based actuation. The obtained experimental results are in good agreement with a simple theoretical model based on electrocapillarity and elasticity theory. The results of the work can enable a broad range of novel optical devices. 8:24AM A9.00003 Micropipette as Coulter counter for submicron particles1 , YAUHENI RUDZEVICH, TONY ORDONEZ, GRANT EVANS, LEE CHOW, University of Central Florida — Coulter counter based on micropipette has been around for several decades. Typical commercial Coulter counter has a pore size of 20 µm, and is designed to detect micron-size blood cells. In recent years, there are a lot of interests in using nanometer pore size Coulter counter to detect single molecule and to sequence DNA. Here we describe a simple nanoparticle counter based on pulled micropipettes with a diameter of 50 – 500 nm. Borosilicate micropipettes with an initial outer diameter of 1.00 mm and inner diameter of 0.5 mm are used. After pulling, the micropipettes are fire polished and ultrasound cleaned. Chlorinated Ag/AgCl electrodes and 0.1 M of KCl solution are used. The ionic currents are measured using an Axopatch 200B amplifier in the voltage-clamp mode. Several types and sizes of nanoparticles are measured, including plain silica and polystyrene nanospheres. The results will be discussed in terms of pH values of the solution and concentrations of the nanoparticles. 1Financial support from National Science Foundation (NSF-0901361) is acknowledged. 8:36AM A9.00004 ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN — 8:48AM A9.00005 On demand fusion and triggering of confined chemical reactions in femtoliter volume aqueous droplets controlled by interfacial tension , PAT COLLIER, SEUNG-YONG JUNG, SCOTT RETTERER, ORNL — Droplet-based microfluidic platforms offer many opportunities to confine chemical and biochemical reactants in discrete ultrasmall reaction volumes, and investigate the effects of increased confinement on reaction dynamics. Current state-of-the-art microfluidic sampling strategies for creating ultrasmall reaction volumes are predominately steady-state approaches, which result in difficulty in trapping reacting species with a well-defined time-zero for initiation of biochemical reactions in the confined space. This talk describes stepwise, on-demand generation and fusion of femtoliter aqueous droplets based on interfacial tension. Sub-millisecond reaction times from droplet fusion were demonstrated, as well as a reversible chemical toggle switch based on alternating fusion of droplets containing acidic or basic solution, monitored with the pH-dependent emission of fluorescein. 9:00AM A9.00006 Acoustic actuation and sorting of droplets and cells at ultrahigh rates in microfluidics , THOMAS FRANKE, Harvard University/University of Augsburg, LOTHAR SCHMID, SUSANNE BRAUNMUELLER, ACHIM WIXFORTH, University of Augsburg, DAVID A. WEITZ, Harvard University, FRANKE TEAM, FRANKE/WEITZ TEAM — We direct the motion of droplets in microfluidic channels using a surface acoustic wave device. This method allows individual drops to be directed along separate microchannel paths at high volume flow rates, which is useful for droplet sorting. The same principle can be applied for biological cell sorting which operates in continuous flow at high sorting rates. The device is based on a surface acoustic wave cell-sorting scheme and combines many advantages of fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) and fluorescence activated droplet sorting (FADS) in microfluidic channels. It is fully integrated on a PDMS device, and allows fast electronic control of cell diversion. We direct cells (HaCaT, MV3 melanoma, fibroblasts) by acoustic streaming excited by a surface acoustic wave. The device underlying principle works without additional enhancement of the sorting by prior labeling of the cells with responsive markers such as magnetic or polarizable beads. We have combined the acoustic device successfully with a laser based fluorescence detection system and demonstrate sorting of fluorescent labeled drops at rates of several kHz without any false sorting. 9:12AM A9.00007 Microfluidic mixing using an array of superparamagnetic beads , WENBIN MAO, ZHENGCHUN PENG, PETER J. HESKETH, ALEXANDER ALEXEEV, Georgia Institute of Technology — We present a combined numerical and experimental study on the dynamics of superparamagnetic beads in a microfluidic channel, wall of which is decorated with an array of stationary magnetic disks. When exposed to a rotating magnetic field, the beads circulate around the magnetic disks. We conduct experiments with micrometer-sized supeparamagnetic beads and use a numerical method that is based on the lattice Boltzmann model to examine the dynamics of this microfluidic system. We isolate the conditions in which beads exhibit stable periodical motion around magnetic disks and probe the effect of microchannel flow on the bead dynamics. We demonstrate that the fluid circulations created by rotating beads can be exploited for microfluidic mixing, thereby offering a new approach for designing highly-efficient active microfluidic mixers. 9:24AM A9.00008 Separating Magnetically Labeled and Unlabeled Biological Cells within Mi- crofluidic Channels , TOM BYVANK, GREG VIEIRA, The Ohio State University Department of Physics, BRANDON MILLER, BO YU, JEFFREY CHALMERS, L. JAMES LEE, The Ohio State University William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, R. SOORYAKUMAR, The Ohio State University Department of Physics — The transport of microscopic objects that rely on magnetic forces have numerous advantages including flexibility of controlling many design parameters and the long range magnetic interactions generally do not adversely affect biological or chemical interactions. We present results on the use of magnetic micro-arrays imprinted within polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microfluidic channels that benefit from these features and the ability to rapidly reprogram the magnetic energy landscape for cell manipulation and sorting applications. A central enabling feature is the very large, tunable, magnetic field gradients (> 104 T/m) that can be designed within the microfluidic architecture. Through use of antibody-conjugated magnetic microspheres to label biological cells, results on the transport and sorting of heterogeneous cell populations are presented. The effects of micro-array and fluid channel design parameters, competition between magnetic forces and hydrodynamic drag forces, and cell-labeling efficiency on cell separation are discussed. 9:36AM A9.00009 Coating microchannels to improve Field-Flow Fractionation , TYLER N. SHENDRUK, GARY W. SLATER, University of Ottawa — We propose a selective-steric-mode Field-Flow Fractionation (ssFFF) technique for size separation of particles. Grafting a dense polymer brush onto the accumulation wall of a microchannel adds two novel effects to FFF: the particles must pay an entropic cost to enter the brush and the brush has a hydrodynamic thickness that shifts the no-slip condition. For small particles, the brush acts as a low-velocity region, leading to chromatographic-like retention. We present an analytical retention theory for small