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- Patent Title: Method for separating and washing of microparticles via a stratified coflow of non-Newtonian and Newtonian fluids
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Application No.: US15510071Application Date: 2016-06-30
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Publication No.: US10888804B2Publication Date: 2021-01-12
- Inventor: Hyung-Jin Sung , Byung-Hang Ha
- Applicant: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Applicant Address: KR Daejeon
- Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Current Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Current Assignee Address: KR Daejeon
- Agency: Medler Ferro Woodhouse Mills PLLC
- Priority: KR10-2016-0008170 20160122
- International Application: PCT/KR2016/006991 WO 20160630
- International Announcement: WO2017/126755 WO 20170727
- Main IPC: B01D21/00
- IPC: B01D21/00 ; B01L3/00 ; G01N15/10 ; G01N15/02 ; G01N35/08 ; G01N15/00 ; C07C31/22 ; C08F26/10 ; G01N33/49

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for separating and washing microparticles via a stratified co-flow of non-Newtonian fluid and Newtonian fluid, wherein the Newtonian fluid as well as the non-Newtonian fluid may flow into a transfer channel formed in a fluid chip at a predetermined flow rate ratio matching with an effective diameter of the target particles contained in the non-Newtonian fluid, thereby inducing a change in positions of particle focusing points with respect to the target particles within the stratified co-flow thereof formed in the transfer channel. As a result, it is possible to more easily separate only the target particles among the microparticles contained in the non-Newtonian fluid toward the Newtonian fluid without using an additional device and human power, or transfer the target particles contained in the non-Newtonian fluid toward the Newtonian fluid for washing the same. Accordingly, since native biofluids used in the studies and clinical experiments are mostly non-Newtonian fluid, it is possible to directly separate and wash the target particles without a need of changing a solution for containing cells/particles or additional diluting the same for executing experiments. If the native biofluids as the non-Newtonian fluid lack a relaxation time, any artificial polymer could be simply added thereto in order to increase the relaxation time, thereby greatly increasing an amount of treatment per time. Further, since high working efficiency can be achieved in a wide range of flow rate, high efficient separation and washing processes may be achieved by a simple hand work of pushing and pumping an injector alone, without any accurate pumping device.
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