Abstract
A novel laminar-stream-based microfluidic system that can serve the function of motility-grated sperm separation was proposed. The working concept lies in the design of a curve-and-straight encountering flow system that controls the formation of matched parallel laminar streams to encourage sperms with high motility to swim across the curve-straight stream boundary lines for high efficient separation. Real physical experiments with animal semens have been carried out, and demonstrated that the system can effectively separate raw semen samples into mixed-immobile and mobile groups.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 1787-1789 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 |
| Event | 12th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2008 - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: Oct 12 2008 → Oct 16 2008 |
Other
| Other | 12th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2008 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | San Diego, CA |
| Period | 10/12/08 → 10/16/08 |
Keywords
- Curve-straight micro streaming flow
- Motility
- Sorting
- Sperm
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous)
- Bioengineering