Smart interface materials integrated with microfluidics for on-demand local capture and release of cells.

Umut Atakan Gurkan Savas Tasoglu Derya Akkaynak Oguzhan Avci Sebnem Unluisler Serli Canikyan Noah Maccallum Utkan Demirci

Adv Healthc Mater

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology, 65 Landsdowne St. PRB 252, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

Published: September 2012

Stimuli responsive materials are coupled with microfluidic technologies to enhance their functions in biological and clinical settings.
These materials allow for precise control over interactions between cells and the material itself.
The system can capture and release cells locally and on demand, using specific spatial and temporal controls within the microfluidic setup.

Stimuli responsive, smart interface materials are integrated with microfluidic technologies creating new functions for a broad range of biological and clinical applications by controlling the material and cell interactions. Local capture and on-demand local release of cells are demonstrated with spatial and temporal control in a microfluidic system.

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