Nature Communications (May 2018)

Magnetic nanochain integrated microfluidic biochips

  • Qirong Xiong,
  • Chun Yee Lim,
  • Jinghua Ren,
  • Jiajing Zhou,
  • Kanyi Pu,
  • Mary B. Chan-Park,
  • Hui Mao,
  • Yee Cheong Lam,
  • Hongwei Duan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04172-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Microfluidic platforms are an attractive setup for performing clinical tests but integrated liquid mixing and bioseparation is difficult at small scales. Here Xiong et al. propose magnetic nanochains which can stir the solution and capture agents and thus enable liquid analysis in a short amount of time.