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Control of Cell Adhesion using Hydrogel Patterning Techniques for Applications in Traction Force Microscopy
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On-demand microfluidic control by micropatterned light irradiation of a photoresponsive hydrogel sheet
Shinji Sugiura1, András Szilágyi, Kimio Sumaru
1Research Center of Advanced Bionics, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Central 5th, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan.
Lab on a Chip
|December 25, 2008
Abstract:
Novel on-chip fluid control strategies, on-demand formation of arbitrary microchannels and parallel control of multiple microvalves were successfully demonstrated by means of computer-controlled micropatterned light irradiation of a photoresponsive hydrogel sheet.

