CA2500252C - Procedes et appareil de manipulations de gouttelettes par des techniques a base d'electromouillage - Google Patents
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Abstract
L'invention concerne un appareil de manipulation de gouttelettes. Cet appareil est conçu avec une électrode à une seule face dans laquelle tous les éléments conducteurs se trouvent sur la face sur laquelle les gouttelettes sont manipulées. Il est possible de disposer d'une surface supplémentaire, parallèle à la première surface, dans le but de contenir les gouttelettes à manipuler. Les gouttelettes sont manipulées grâce à des techniques à base d'électromouillage dans lesquelles les électrodes contenues ou intégrées dans la première surface sont activées et désactivées séquentiellement par commande. L'appareil permet une certain nombre de processus de manipulations de gouttelettes, y compris la fusion et le mélange de deux gouttelettes ensemble, la division d'une gouttelette en deux ou plusieurs gouttelettes, l'échantillonnage d'un écoulement continu de liquide par formation, à partir de l'écoulement, de gouttelettes que l'on peut commander individuellement, et un mélange binaire itératif ou numérique de gouttelettes afin d'obtenir un rapport de mélange recherché.
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| US10/253,342 US7329545B2 (en) | 2002-09-24 | 2002-09-24 | Methods for sampling a liquid flow |
| US10/253,368 | 2002-09-24 | ||
| US10/253,368 US6911132B2 (en) | 2002-09-24 | 2002-09-24 | Apparatus for manipulating droplets by electrowetting-based techniques |
| US10/253,342 | 2002-09-24 | ||
| PCT/US2003/012754 WO2004030820A2 (fr) | 2002-09-24 | 2003-04-24 | Procedes et appareil de manipulations de gouttelettes par des techniques a base d'electromouillage |
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| CA2500252A1 CA2500252A1 (fr) | 2004-04-15 |
| CA2500252C true CA2500252C (fr) | 2011-10-04 |
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