Digital Microfluidic Cell Culture.
@article{Ng2015DigitalMC,
title={Digital Microfluidic Cell Culture.},
author={Alphonsus H. C. Ng and Bingyu B. Li and M. Dean Chamberlain and Aaron R. Wheeler},
journal={Annual review of biomedical engineering},
year={2015},
volume={17},
pages={
91-112
}
}Digital microfluidics (DMF) is a droplet-based liquid-handling technology that has recently become popular for cell culture and analysis. In DMF, picoliter- to microliter-sized droplets are manipulated on a planar surface using electric fields, thus enabling software-reconfigurable operations on individual droplets, such as move, merge, split, and dispense from reservoirs. Using this technique, multistep cell-based processes can be carried out using simple and compact instrumentation, making…
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