Nanofluidic resistive pulse sensing for characterization of extracellular vesicles.

This paper describes the development, design and characterization of a resistive pulse sensing (RPS) system for the analysis of size distributions of extracellular vesicles (EVs). The system is based on microfluidic chips fabricated using soft-lithography and operated in pressure-driven mode. This fabrication approach provided reproducible pore dimensions and the best performing chip design enabled, without calibration, sizing of both 252 nm and 460 nm test particles within 8% of theoretically calculated values, based on the size specifications provided by suppliers.