title: Separation of Escherichia coli bacteria from peripheral blood mononuclear cells using standing surface acoustic waves.
abstract: A microfluidic device was developed to separate heterogeneous particle or cell mixtures in a continuous flow using acoustophoresis. In this device, two identical surface acoustic waves (SAWs) generated by interdigital transducers (IDTs) propagated toward a microchannel, which accordingly built up a standing surface acoustic wave (SSAW) field across the channel. A numerical model, coupling a piezoelectric effect in the solid substrate and acoustic pressure in the fluid, was developed to provide a better understanding of SSAW-based particle manipulation. It was found that the pressure nodes across the channel were individual planes perpendicular to the solid substrate. In the separation experiments, two side sheath flows hydrodynamically focused the injected particle or cell mixtures into a very narrow stream along the centerline. Particles flowing through the SSAW field experienced an acoustic radiation force that highly depends on the particle properties. As a result, dissimilar particles or cells were laterally attracted toward the pressure nodes at different magnitudes, and were eventually switched to different outlets. Two types of fluorescent microspheres with different sizes were successfully separated using the developed device. In addition, Escherichia coli bacteria premixed in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were also efficiently isolated using the SSAW-base separation technique. Flow cytometric analysis on the collected samples found that the purity of separated E. coli bacteria was 95.65%.
authors: Pillar of Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design , Singapore 138682, Singapore.
authors: Ye
authors: Y
authors: Ai
authors: Claire K
authors: CK
authors: Sanders
authors: Babetta L
authors: BL
authors: Marrone
mesh_terms: D002469:Cell Separation / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D004867:Equipment Design; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D007963:Leukocytes, Mononuclear / Q000382:microbiology*; D046210:Microfluidic Analytical Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation; D013016:Sound
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