US20140251807A1 - Droplet actuator and methods - Google Patents
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- This invention relates generally to the fields of laboratory automation, microfabrication and manipulation of small volumes of fluids (microfludics), in such a manner so as to enable rapid dispensing and manipulation of small isolated volumes of fluids under direct electronic control. More specifically, the invention relates to a method of forming and moving individual droplets of electrically conductive liquid, and devices for carrying out this method.
- Miniaturization of assays in analytical biochemistry is a direct result of the need to collect maximum data from a sample of a limited volume.
- This miniaturization requires methods of rapid and automatic dispensing and manipulation of small volumes of liquids (solvents, reagents, samples etc.)
- the two methods currently employed for such manipulation are, 1 ) ink jetting and 2 ) electromigration methods in capillary channels: electroosmosis, elecrophoresis and/or combination thereof. Both methods suffer poor reproducibility.
- Ink jetting is based on dispensing droplets of liquid through a nozzle.
- Droplet expulsion from the nozzle is effected by a pressure pulse in the reservoir connected to the nozzle.
- the pressure pulse itself is effected by an electric signal.
- the droplets are subsequently deposited on a solid surface opposing the nozzle.
- the relative position of the nozzle and the surface is controlled by a mechanical device, resulting in deposition of droplets in a desired pattern. Removal of the droplets is typically effected by either washing or spinning (centrifugal forces).
- ink jetting is a dispensing method generally applicable to a wide variety of liquids
- the volume of the deposited droplets is not very stable. It depends on both the nature of the liquid being deposited (viscosity, density, vapor pressure, surface tension) and the environment in the gap between the surface and the nozzle (temperature, humidity). Ink jetting technology does not provide means to manipulate droplets after they have been deposited on the surface, except for removing them.
- Electromigration methods are based on mobility of ions in liquids when electric current is passed through the liquids. Because different ions have different mobilities in the electric field, the composition of liquid being manipulated generally changes as it is being transported. While this feature of electromigration methods is useful for analytical purposes, because it allows physical separation of components of mixtures, it is undesirable in general micromanipulation techniques.
- ions present in the liquid alter the electric field in that liquid. Therefore, changes in ionic composition in the liquid being manipulated result in variations in resultant distribution of flow and material for the same sequence of control electrical signals.
- the devices for carrying out the electromigration methods have connected channels (capillaries), which are used to define liquid flow paths in the device. Because the sizes of these capillaries and connections among them are optimized for certain types of manipulations, and also for certain types of liquids, these devices are very specialized.
- the present invention provides microchip laboratory systems and methods of using these systems so that complex chemical and biochemical procedures can be conducted on a microchip under electronic control.
- the microchip laboratory system comprises a material handling device that transports liquid in the form of individual droplets positioned between two substantially parallel, Hat surfaces.
- Optional devices for forming the droplets are also provided.
- the formation and movement of droplets are precisely controlled by plurality of electric fields across the gap between the two surfaces. These fields are controlled by applying voltages to plurality of electrodes positioned on the opposite sides of the gap.
- the electrodes are substantially planar and positioned on the surfaces facing the gap. At least some of the electrodes are electrically insulated from the liquid in the gap.
- the gap is filled with a filler fluid substantially immiscible with the liquids which are to be manipulated.
- the filler fluid is substantially non-conductive.
- the wetting properties of the surfaces facing inside the gap are controlled, by the choice of materials contacting the liquids or chemical modification of these materials, so that at least one of these surfaces is preferentially wettable by the filler fluid rather than any of the liquids which are to be manipulated.
- the operating principle of the devices is known as electrowetting. If a droplet of polar conductive liquid is placed on a hydrophobic surface, application of electric potential across the liquid-solid interface reduces the contact angle, effectively converting the surface into more hydrophilic.
- the electric fields effecting the hydrophobic-hydrophilic conversion are controlled by applying an electrical potential to electrodes arranged as an array on at least one side of the gap.
- the electrodes on the other side mayor may not be arranged in a similar array; in the preferred embodiment, there is array of electrodes only on one side of the gap, white the other has only one large electrode covering substantially the entire area of the device.
- the electrodes are coated with an insulator.
- the insulator material is chosen so that it is chemically resistant to the liquids to be manipulated in the device, as well as the filler fluid.
- coating materials examples include SiN and BN, deposited by any of the conventional thin-film deposition methods (sputtering, evaporation, or preferably chemical vapor deposition) and paryleneTM, deposited by pyrolytic process, spin-on glasses (SOGs) and polymer coatings (polyimide s, polymethylmetacrylates and their copolymers, etc.), dipand spray-deposited polymer coatings, as well as polymer films (TeflonTM, polyimides etc.) applied by lamination.
- sputtering, evaporation, or preferably chemical vapor deposition deposited by pyrolytic process
- SOGs spin-on glasses
- polymer coatings polyimide s, poly
- FIG. 1 Cross-section of a planar electrowetting actuator according to the invention
- FIG. 2 Pump assembly
- FIG. 3 Drop meter
- FIG. 4 Active reservoir
- FIG. 5 Array
- FIG. 6 Vortexer
- FIG. 7 Zero-dead-volume valve
- FIG. 8 Decade dilutor
- a chamber filled with a fluid with flat electrodes 32 a,b on opposite surfaces ( FIG. 1 )
- the chamber is formed by the top 22 and the bottom 24 wafers.
- the manipulated liquid is presented in the form of droplets 26 .
- the fluid 30 filling the chamber should be immiscible with the liquid that is to be manipulated, and be less polar than that liquid.
- the filling fluid 30 may be air, benzene, or a silicone oil.
- the electrodes have electrical connections allowing an outside control circuit to change their potentials individually or in groups. At least some of the electrodes have insulating, hydrophobic coating 28 a,b separating them from the inside of the chamber, and the voltage is applied in such a manner that no DC voltage difference is applied to any two non-insulated electrodes.
- the linear arrangement of electrodes shown in FIG. 2 is an integral pump.
- a droplet of polar liquid, or a streak: of several electrode lengths, can be moved along by applying a wetting potential to an electrode on one side of it and removing the wetting potential from the last electrode under the other side of the streak.
- the gap separating two adjacent electrodes is not straight.
- it has either sawtooth or meander shape, preferably with rounded corners.
- the depths and widths of the interdigitated features of the—adjacent electrodes are preferably chosen so as to promote moving liquid from one electrode to another when the voltage is applied to the latter electrode, as shown in FIG. 2 a - c .
- the initial position of the droplet 26 is shown in FIG. 2 a .
- the hatching of an electrode 32 adjacent to the position of the droplet indicates that that electrode is connected to a voltage source.
- the droplet 26 moves ( FIG. 2 b ) so as to align itself with the electric field of that electrode ( FIG. 2 c ).
- a drop meter As a convenient interface between a microfluidics device operating in subnanoliter to microliter range of volumes with the outside world, a drop meter is provided.
- the drop meter comprises an arrangement control pads on one side of the chamber ( FIG. 3 a ),
- the contact pad 34 is either hydrophilic due to material it is made of, or due to a surface treatment, or made hydrophilic by applying a wetting potential to an underlying electrode.
- the other two control pads have electrodes under the hydrophobic surface
- a wetting potential is first applied to the cutoff electrode 36 and the control electrode 32 .
- the liquid which has covered the surface of the contact pad 34 spreads over the other two pads, 32 and 36 ( FIG. 3 b - d ). Consequently, the wetting potential is removed from the cutoff electrode 36 , making it hydrophobic again, Part of the liquid moves back to the contact pad 34 , and is replaced on the cutoff electrode 36 with the filling fluid ( FIG. 3 e - f ).
- an isolated droplet of liquid 26 . FIG. 3 g
- the size of the droplet is determined by the area of the control electrode 32 and the distance between the two surfaces forming the working chamber of the device,
- a reagent solution may be stored in an active reservoir in a sealed device and delivered under electronic control to a reaction site.
- An example of such reservoir is shown in FIG. 4 .
- the delivery is effected by applying the wetting potential to the first electrode 32 of the transport line and removing the potential sequentially from the reservoir electrodes 40 , for example beginning from the comer(s) furthermost from the transport line.
- the coating within the reservoir area is only moderately hydrophobic, and the rim 38 around that area is extremely hydrophobic. The polar liquid not spill beyond the rim 38 , allowing long shelf life of the device.
- Droplets can be moved by of ectrowetting microactuators in more than one direction.
- the array shown in FIG. 5 comprises test areas 42 b (hatched) and transport lines 42 a (open). Reagents are supplied through external transport lines, shown (broken) in the top part of the drawing. Wash and waste lines are arranged similarly.
- the sources of the reagents may be reagent reservoirs as shown in FIG. 4 , drop meters as in FIG. 3 , or integral dilution devices such as shown in FIGS. 6 , 8 .
- the test pad electrodes are transparent, for example made of indium tin oxide (ITO) or a thin, transparent metal film, to allow for optical detection of molecules immobilized on the pad or trapped in the droplet.
- ITO indium tin oxide
- Such an array has utility as a system for parallel synthesis of many different reagents. Both solid-phase synthesis of immobilized compounds and liquid-phase synthesis using immobilized reagents, resins and catalysts are possible.
- Another use of such an array is a fraction collector for capillary electrophoresis or similar separation methods, whereby each fraction is isolated by a drop meter (similar to that shown in FIG. 3 ) and placed on its individual pad 32 . This will allow long signal accumulation time for optical and radioactive detection methods and therefore improve sensitivity of analysis.
- the electrodes in an array are the width of the gap between the electrodes and the shape of the electrode outline. To avoid accidental mixing of droplets on the test pads, the gaps separating those are straight and relatively wide.
- the electrodes in the transport lines preferably have interdigitated sawtooth or meander outlines. The gaps between the test pad electrodes and transport line electrodes are also preferably of the meander or sawtooth types.
- an integral mixer/vortexer For controlled mixing of solutions, an integral mixer/vortexer is provided ( FIG. 6 ). It comprises a circular arrangement of sectorial electrodes 44 , some of which have transport line electrodes adjacent to, them. The necessary number of the sectors is fitted with each solution to be mixed by consecutively applying the wetting potential. to the respective electrodes.
- the sectors initially filled with different solutions are preferably isolated from each other by the interspersed sectors with filler fluid. Then the potentials on the transport lines are removed, and those on sectorial electrodes are rearranged so as to bring the solutions into contact.
- the mixing action is achieved by simultaneous removal of filler Fluid from some of the sectors and filling other sectors with the filler fluid. In particular, vortexer action is achieved if this is done in a sequential fashion around the circle.
- a zero-dead-volume valve is provided.
- An example of electrode configuration for this application is shown in FIG. 8 .
- Supply lines 64 a and 64 b are connected to the line 64 c through gate electrode 62 .
- Either of the supply lines is operated in the manner described in Example 1, white wetting potential is applied to the gate electrode. Removal of the wetting potential from the gate electrode 62 allows to move one of the solutions back up its supply line before the other is transported down its respective line.
- This arrangement has utility, for example, in systems for determination of reaction kinetic constants.
- a group of mixer/vortexers such as that shown in FIG. 6 can be used, complete with piping, for serial dilutions of reagents.
- An example of a decade dilutor with five decades is shown in FIG. 8 .
- Each mixer in the decade dilutor is operated in the manner described in the Example 5. Undiluted solution is passed directly through to the line 52 ; diluted 10 times, down the line 54 , and also to the next mixer 50 ; from there, solution diluted 100 times is passed both down the line 56 and to the next mixer 50 and so forth.
- Such dilutors have utility, for example, as elements of a system for determination of binding constants of labeled reagents in solution to those immobilized on test pads of an array (similar to that shown in FIG. 5 ). While the present invention has been described in terms of particular embodiments, it should be understood that the present invention lies in the application of the electrowetting liquid propulsion principle to forming and manipulating discrete droplets of liquids rather than a particular structure or configuration of the device. It will be obvious to those skilled in the art that a variety of electrode configurations and arrangements can be substituted for those described in the Examples without departing from the scope of the present invention. In particular, the dimensions in the figures should be understood only as illustrative examples rather than set dimensions defining the scope of the present invention.
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A series of microactuators for manipulating small quantities of liquids, and methods of using these for manipulating liquids, are disclosed. The microactuators are based on the phenomenon of electrowetting and contain no moving parts. The force acting on the liquid is a potential-dependent gradient of adhesion energy between the liquid and a solid insulating surface.
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- This application is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/430,816, filed May 6, 2003 (now U.S. Pat. No. 7,255,780), which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/490,769, filed Jan. 14, 2000 (now U.S. Pat. No. 6,565,727), which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/117,002, filed Jan. 25, 1999.
- This invention relates generally to the fields of laboratory automation, microfabrication and manipulation of small volumes of fluids (microfludics), in such a manner so as to enable rapid dispensing and manipulation of small isolated volumes of fluids under direct electronic control. More specifically, the invention relates to a method of forming and moving individual droplets of electrically conductive liquid, and devices for carrying out this method.
- Miniaturization of assays in analytical biochemistry is a direct result of the need to collect maximum data from a sample of a limited volume. This miniaturization, in turn, requires methods of rapid and automatic dispensing and manipulation of small volumes of liquids (solvents, reagents, samples etc.) The two methods currently employed for such manipulation are, 1) ink jetting and 2) electromigration methods in capillary channels: electroosmosis, elecrophoresis and/or combination thereof. Both methods suffer poor reproducibility.
- Ink jetting is based on dispensing droplets of liquid through a nozzle. Droplet expulsion from the nozzle is effected by a pressure pulse in the reservoir connected to the nozzle. The pressure pulse itself is effected by an electric signal. The droplets are subsequently deposited on a solid surface opposing the nozzle. The relative position of the nozzle and the surface is controlled by a mechanical device, resulting in deposition of droplets in a desired pattern. Removal of the droplets is typically effected by either washing or spinning (centrifugal forces).
- While ink jetting is a dispensing method generally applicable to a wide variety of liquids, the volume of the deposited droplets is not very stable. It depends on both the nature of the liquid being deposited (viscosity, density, vapor pressure, surface tension) and the environment in the gap between the surface and the nozzle (temperature, humidity). Ink jetting technology does not provide means to manipulate droplets after they have been deposited on the surface, except for removing them.
- Electromigration methods are based on mobility of ions in liquids when electric current is passed through the liquids. Because different ions have different mobilities in the electric field, the composition of liquid being manipulated generally changes as it is being transported. While this feature of electromigration methods is useful for analytical purposes, because it allows physical separation of components of mixtures, it is undesirable in general micromanipulation techniques.
- Additionally, the need to pass electrical current through the liquid results in heating of the liquid, which may cause undesirable chemical reactions or even boiling. To avoid this, the electrical conductivities of all liquids in the system are kept low, limiting the applicability of electromigration methods.
- The need to pass electrical current through the liquid also requires that the control electrodes be electrically connected through an uninterrupted body of conductive liquid. This requirement additionally complicates precision dispensing and results in ineffective use of reagents, because the metered doses of a liquid are isolated from a continuous flow of that liquid from one electrode to another.
- Additionally, ions present in the liquid alter the electric field in that liquid. Therefore, changes in ionic composition in the liquid being manipulated result in variations in resultant distribution of flow and material for the same sequence of control electrical signals.
- Finally, the devices for carrying out the electromigration methods have connected channels (capillaries), which are used to define liquid flow paths in the device. Because the sizes of these capillaries and connections among them are optimized for certain types of manipulations, and also for certain types of liquids, these devices are very specialized.
- The present invention provides microchip laboratory systems and methods of using these systems so that complex chemical and biochemical procedures can be conducted on a microchip under electronic control.
- The microchip laboratory system comprises a material handling device that transports liquid in the form of individual droplets positioned between two substantially parallel, Hat surfaces. Optional devices for forming the droplets are also provided.
- The formation and movement of droplets are precisely controlled by plurality of electric fields across the gap between the two surfaces. These fields are controlled by applying voltages to plurality of electrodes positioned on the opposite sides of the gap. The electrodes are substantially planar and positioned on the surfaces facing the gap. At least some of the electrodes are electrically insulated from the liquid in the gap.
- The gap is filled with a filler fluid substantially immiscible with the liquids which are to be manipulated. The filler fluid is substantially non-conductive. The wetting properties of the surfaces facing inside the gap are controlled, by the choice of materials contacting the liquids or chemical modification of these materials, so that at least one of these surfaces is preferentially wettable by the filler fluid rather than any of the liquids which are to be manipulated.
- The operating principle of the devices is known as electrowetting. If a droplet of polar conductive liquid is placed on a hydrophobic surface, application of electric potential across the liquid-solid interface reduces the contact angle, effectively converting the surface into more hydrophilic. According to the present invention, the electric fields effecting the hydrophobic-hydrophilic conversion are controlled by applying an electrical potential to electrodes arranged as an array on at least one side of the gap. The electrodes on the other side mayor may not be arranged in a similar array; in the preferred embodiment, there is array of electrodes only on one side of the gap, white the other has only one large electrode covering substantially the entire area of the device.
- At least on one side of the gap, the electrodes are coated with an insulator. The insulator material is chosen so that it is chemically resistant to the liquids to be manipulated in the device, as well as the filler fluid. By applying an electrical potential to an electrode or a group of electrodes adjacent to an area contacted by polar liquid, the hydrophobic surface on top of these electrodes is converted to hydrophilic and the polar liquid is pulled by the surface tension gradient (Marangoni effect) so as to maximize the area overlap with the charged group of electrodes.
- By removing an electric potential from an electrode positioned between the extremities of an elongated body of polar liquid, the portion of formerly hydrophilic surface corresponding to that electrode is made hydrophobic. The gradient of surface tension in this case acts to separate the elongated body of liquid into two separate bodies, each surrounded by a phase boundary. Thus, individual droplets of polar liquid can be formed by alternatively applying and removing an electric potential to electrodes. The droplets can be subsequently repositioned within the device as discussed above.
- Examples of appropriate coating materials include SiN and BN, deposited by any of the conventional thin-film deposition methods (sputtering, evaporation, or preferably chemical vapor deposition) and parylene™, deposited by pyrolytic process, spin-on glasses (SOGs) and polymer coatings (polyimide s, polymethylmetacrylates and their copolymers, etc.), dipand spray-deposited polymer coatings, as well as polymer films (Teflon™, polyimides etc.) applied by lamination.
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FIG. 1 Cross-section of a planar electrowetting actuator according to the invention - 22—top wafer
- 24—bottom wafer
- 26—liquid droplet
- 28 a—bottom hydrophobic insulating coating
- 28 b—top hydrophobic insulating coating
- 30—filler fluid
- 32 a—bottom control electrodes
- 32 b—top control electrodes
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FIG. 2 Pump assembly -
FIG. 3 Drop meter - 34—contact pad
- 36—cutoff electrode
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FIG. 4 Active reservoir - 38—hydrophobic rim
- 40—reservoir electrodes
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FIG. 5 Array - 42 a—transport lines
- 42 b—test areas
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FIG. 6 Vortexer - 44—sectorial electrode
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FIG. 7 Zero-dead-volume valve - 62—gate electrode
- 64 a—first supply line
- 64 b—second supply line
- 64 e—common line
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FIG. 8 Decade dilutor - 46—diluent line
- 48—reagent supply line
- 50—vortexer
- 52—undiluted reagent outlet
- 54—first stage outlet
- 56—second stage outlet
- 58—third stage outlet
- 60—fourth stage outlet
- According to the invention, there is provided a chamber filled with a fluid, with
flat electrodes 32 a,b on opposite surfaces (FIG. 1 ) The chamber is formed by the top 22 and the bottom 24 wafers. The manipulated liquid is presented in the form ofdroplets 26. The fluid 30 filling the chamber should be immiscible with the liquid that is to be manipulated, and be less polar than that liquid. For example, ifliquid 26 is an aqueous solution, the fillingfluid 30 may be air, benzene, or a silicone oil. The electrodes have electrical connections allowing an outside control circuit to change their potentials individually or in groups. At least some of the electrodes have insulating,hydrophobic coating 28 a,b separating them from the inside of the chamber, and the voltage is applied in such a manner that no DC voltage difference is applied to any two non-insulated electrodes. - The linear arrangement of electrodes shown in
FIG. 2 is an integral pump. A droplet of polar liquid, or a streak: of several electrode lengths, can be moved along by applying a wetting potential to an electrode on one side of it and removing the wetting potential from the last electrode under the other side of the streak. To aid the effect of electrowetting, in moving liquid from one electrode to another, in a preferred embodiment the gap separating two adjacent electrodes is not straight. Preferably, it has either sawtooth or meander shape, preferably with rounded corners. The depths and widths of the interdigitated features of the—adjacent electrodes are preferably chosen so as to promote moving liquid from one electrode to another when the voltage is applied to the latter electrode, as shown inFIG. 2 a-c. The initial position of thedroplet 26 is shown inFIG. 2 a. The hatching of anelectrode 32 adjacent to the position of the droplet indicates that that electrode is connected to a voltage source. Thedroplet 26 moves (FIG. 2 b) so as to align itself with the electric field of that electrode (FIG. 2 c). - As a convenient interface between a microfluidics device operating in subnanoliter to microliter range of volumes with the outside world, a drop meter is provided. The drop meter comprises an arrangement control pads on one side of the chamber (
FIG. 3 a), Thecontact pad 34 is either hydrophilic due to material it is made of, or due to a surface treatment, or made hydrophilic by applying a wetting potential to an underlying electrode. The other two control pads have electrodes under the hydrophobic surface, - To operate the drop meter, a wetting potential is first applied to the
cutoff electrode 36 and thecontrol electrode 32. As a result of this, the liquid which has covered the surface of thecontact pad 34 spreads over the other two pads, 32 and 36 (FIG. 3 b-d). Consequently, the wetting potential is removed from thecutoff electrode 36, making it hydrophobic again, Part of the liquid moves back to thecontact pad 34, and is replaced on thecutoff electrode 36 with the filling fluid (FIG. 3 e-f). As a result, an isolated droplet of liquid (26.FIG. 3 g) is formed on thecontrol electrode 32. The size of the droplet is determined by the area of thecontrol electrode 32 and the distance between the two surfaces forming the working chamber of the device, - A reagent solution may be stored in an active reservoir in a sealed device and delivered under electronic control to a reaction site. An example of such reservoir is shown in
FIG. 4 . The delivery is effected by applying the wetting potential to thefirst electrode 32 of the transport line and removing the potential sequentially from thereservoir electrodes 40, for example beginning from the comer(s) furthermost from the transport line. To allow for long storage of the devices with power off, the coating within the reservoir area is only moderately hydrophobic, and therim 38 around that area is extremely hydrophobic. The polar liquid not spill beyond therim 38, allowing long shelf life of the device. - Droplets can be moved by of ectrowetting microactuators in more than one direction. The array shown in
FIG. 5 comprisestest areas 42 b (hatched) and transport lines 42 a (open). Reagents are supplied through external transport lines, shown (broken) in the top part of the drawing. Wash and waste lines are arranged similarly. The sources of the reagents may be reagent reservoirs as shown inFIG. 4 , drop meters as inFIG. 3 , or integral dilution devices such as shown in FIGS. 6,8. In a preferred embodiment, the test pad electrodes are transparent, for example made of indium tin oxide (ITO) or a thin, transparent metal film, to allow for optical detection of molecules immobilized on the pad or trapped in the droplet. - Such an array has utility as a system for parallel synthesis of many different reagents. Both solid-phase synthesis of immobilized compounds and liquid-phase synthesis using immobilized reagents, resins and catalysts are possible. Another use of such an array is a fraction collector for capillary electrophoresis or similar separation methods, whereby each fraction is isolated by a drop meter (similar to that shown in
FIG. 3 ) and placed on itsindividual pad 32. This will allow long signal accumulation time for optical and radioactive detection methods and therefore improve sensitivity of analysis. - Important features of the electrodes in an array are the width of the gap between the electrodes and the shape of the electrode outline. To avoid accidental mixing of droplets on the test pads, the gaps separating those are straight and relatively wide. On the other hand, the electrodes in the transport lines preferably have interdigitated sawtooth or meander outlines. The gaps between the test pad electrodes and transport line electrodes are also preferably of the meander or sawtooth types.
- For controlled mixing of solutions, an integral mixer/vortexer is provided (
FIG. 6 ). It comprises a circular arrangement ofsectorial electrodes 44, some of which have transport line electrodes adjacent to, them. The necessary number of the sectors is fitted with each solution to be mixed by consecutively applying the wetting potential. to the respective electrodes. The sectors initially filled with different solutions are preferably isolated from each other by the interspersed sectors with filler fluid. Then the potentials on the transport lines are removed, and those on sectorial electrodes are rearranged so as to bring the solutions into contact. The mixing action is achieved by simultaneous removal of filler Fluid from some of the sectors and filling other sectors with the filler fluid. In particular, vortexer action is achieved if this is done in a sequential fashion around the circle. - Alternative configurations of electrodes are possible for achieving the same goat of assisting in mixing solutions. For example, some of the sectors in an arrangement similar to that shown in
FIG. 6 could be made narrower and longer than the other sectors. - To rapidly exchange solutions contacting a particular pad in an array, a zero-dead-volume valve is provided. An example of electrode configuration for this application is shown in
FIG. 8 .Supply lines line 64 c throughgate electrode 62. Either of the supply lines is operated in the manner described in Example 1, white wetting potential is applied to the gate electrode. Removal of the wetting potential from thegate electrode 62 allows to move one of the solutions back up its supply line before the other is transported down its respective line. This arrangement has utility, for example, in systems for determination of reaction kinetic constants. - A group of mixer/vortexers such as that shown in
FIG. 6 can be used, complete with piping, for serial dilutions of reagents. An example of a decade dilutor with five decades is shown inFIG. 8 . Each mixer in the decade dilutor is operated in the manner described in the Example 5. Undiluted solution is passed directly through to theline 52; diluted 10 times, down theline 54, and also to thenext mixer 50; from there, solution diluted 100 times is passed both down theline 56 and to thenext mixer 50 and so forth. - Such dilutors have utility, for example, as elements of a system for determination of binding constants of labeled reagents in solution to those immobilized on test pads of an array (similar to that shown in
FIG. 5 ). While the present invention has been described in terms of particular embodiments, it should be understood that the present invention lies in the application of the electrowetting liquid propulsion principle to forming and manipulating discrete droplets of liquids rather than a particular structure or configuration of the device. It will be obvious to those skilled in the art that a variety of electrode configurations and arrangements can be substituted for those described in the Examples without departing from the scope of the present invention. In particular, the dimensions in the figures should be understood only as illustrative examples rather than set dimensions defining the scope of the present invention.
Claims (52)
1. A device comprising:
(a) a first surface and a second surface separated from one another to form a gap between the first and second surfaces;
(b) plurality of electrodes amounted on the first and second surfaces and facing the gap;
(c) an insulator separating at least a subset of the electrodes from the gap; and
(d) a drop meter comprising a contact pad, a cutoff electrode, and a control electrode, wherein the contact pad is adjacent to the cutoff electrode, and the cutoff electrode is adjacent to the control electrode.
2. The device of claim 1 wherein the contact pad comprises an underlying electrode.
3. The device of claim 1 wherein the contact pad comprises a hydrophilic surface.
4. The device of claim 1 wherein the contact pad has a hydrophilic character imparted by a hydrophilic surface treatment.
5. The device of claim 1 wherein the contact pad comprises a hydrophilic material.
6. The device of claim 1 wherein the plurality of electrodes comprises electrodes coupled by electrical connections to a control circuit.
7. The device of claim 1 wherein the plurality of electrodes comprises electrodes comprising a hydrophilic surface.
8. The device of claim 1 wherein the plurality of electrodes comprises a two-dimensional array of electrodes.
9. The device of claim 1 wherein the plurality of electrodes comprises a linear arrangement of electrodes.
10. The device of claim 1 wherein the plurality of electrodes comprises a two-dimensional array of electrodes on one of the surfaces and the electrodes on such surface are coated with an insulator.
11. The device of claim 1 wherein the plurality of electrodes comprises a single electrode on one of the surfaces.
12. The device of claim 1 wherein the plurality of electrodes comprises an array of electrodes on the first surface and a single large electrode on the second surface.
13. The device of claim 1 wherein the plurality of electrodes comprises substantially planar electrodes.
14. The device of claim 1 wherein the plurality of electrodes comprises one or more substantially square electrodes.
15. The device of claim 1 wherein the plurality of electrodes comprises a path or two-dimensional array of one or more substantially square electrodes.
16. The device of claim 1 wherein the plurality of electrodes comprises one or more substantially triangular electrodes.
17. The device of claim 1 wherein the gap comprises a filler fluid therein.
18. The device of claim 1 further comprising:
(a) a filler fluid in the gap; and
(b) a droplet in the filter fluid.
19. The device of claim 1 further comprising:
(a) a filler fluid in the gap; and
(b) a polar droplet in the filler fluid.
20. The device of claim 1 wherein the gap comprises:
(a) a filler fluid in the gap; and
(b) a droplet in the filler fluid; wherein at least one of the surfaces is preferentially wettable by the filler fluid relative to the droplet.
21. The device of claim 1 wherein the first and second surfaces are arranged to expose to the gap substantially parallel, flat surfaces.
22. The device of claim 1 comprising means for supplying voltage to the electrodes.
23. The device of claim 1 comprising means for generating an electric potential to the electrodes.
24. The device of claim 1 wherein the insulator is hydrophobic.
25. The device of claim 1 , wherein the insulator comprises a hydrophobic coating.
26. The device of claim 1 wherein:
(a) the insulator comprises a hydrophobic surface; and
(b) an electric field generated by one or more of the electrodes supplied with an electric potential causes a portion of the hydrophobic surface to take on a hydrophilic character.
27. The device of claim 1 wherein:
(a) the insulator comprises a hydrophobic surface;
(b) the gap comprises a filler fluid;
(c) the filler fluid comprises an immiscible droplet therein adjacent to an electrode; and
(d) the immiscible droplet has a contact angle relative to the surface comprising the electrode, which contact angle is increased relative to the contact angle of the immiscible droplet in the presence of an electric potential.
28. A device comprising:
(a) two surfaces separated to form a gap;
(b) a two-dimensional array and/or linear path of electrodes positioned to project an electric field across the gap;
c) one or more electrodes exposed to the gap and not coated with an insulator material.
29. A device comprising:
(a) two surfaces separated to form a gap;
(b) a two-dimensional array and/or linear path electrodes positioned on one of the surfaces and coated with an insulator material;
(c) one or more electrodes exposed to the gap and not coated with an insulator material.
30. A device comprising:
(a) two surfaces separated to form a gap;
(b) an array and/or linear path of electrodes positioned on one of the surfaces and coated with an insulator material;
(c) a corresponding array and/or linear path positioned on the other of the surfaces comprising electrodes not coated with an insulator material.
31. A method of forming a droplet, the method comprising:
(a) overlapping a droplet with a charged group of electrodes;
(b) removing a potential from an intermediate electrode of the charged group of electrodes to separate the droplet into separate bodies.
32. The method of claim 31 wherein the droplet comprises an elongated body overlapping the charged group of electrodes.
33. The method of claim 32 wherein the removing step comprises removing a potential from an electrode positioned between extremities of the elongated body.
34. The method of claim 31 wherein the overlapping step is accomplished by applying an electric potential to a group of electrodes to yield the charged group of electrodes.
35. The method of claim 31 wherein the charged group of electrodes comprises a polymer coating thereon.
36. The method of claim. 31 wherein the charged group of electrodes comprises a TEFLON® fluoropolymer coating thereon.
37. The method of claim 31 wherein the charged group of electrodes comprises a parylene coating thereon.
38. The method of claim 31 wherein the droplet is formed as part of a biochemical procedure.
39. The method of claim 31 wherein the droplet is formed as part of a chemical procedure.
40. A method of dispensing a droplet, the method comprising:
(a) providing substrate comprising a hydrophilic contact pad adjacent to a cutoff electrode adjacent to a control electrode;
(b) providing a liquid on the control pad;
(c) activating the control pad, the cutoff electrode and the control electrode to spread the liquid over the control pad, the cutoff electrode and the control electrode;
(d) deactivating the cutoff electrode to yield a droplet on the control electrode.
41. The method of claim 40 wherein the hydrophilic contact pad comprises a hydrophobic surface treatment.
42. The method of claim 40 wherein the hydrophilic contact pad is made hydrophilic by activation of an underlying electrode.
43. The method of claim 40 wherein the droplet is dispensed as part of a biochemical procedure.
44. The method of claim 40 wherein the droplet is dispensed as part of a chemical procedure.
45. A method of forming a droplet, the method comprising separating the droplet into separate bodies using a group of electrodes, at least a portion of which electrodes are coated with a hydrophobic coating.
46. The method of claim 45 wherein the hydrophobic coating comprises a TEFLON® polymer coating.
47. The method of claim 45 wherein the hydrophobic coating comprises a parylene coating.
48. A method of transporting a droplet, the method comprising:
(a) providing a surface comprising a first electrode and a second electrode;
(b) providing the first electrode with a wetting potential causing a droplet to be positioned on the first electrode;
removing the wetting potential from the first electrode and applying wetting potential to the second electrode, causing the droplet to move from the first electrode to the second electrode.
49. The method of claim 48 wherein the first and second electrodes are coated with lipophilic coating.
50. The method of claim 49 wherein the lipophilic coating comprises a TEFLON® fluoropolymer.
51. The method of claim 49 wherein the lipophilic coating comprises a parylene coating.
52. A method of transporting an elongated droplet, the method comprising.
(a) providing the droplet on a surface having an electrode-mediated wetting potential;
(b) applying a wetting potential to an electrode at one end of the elongated droplet and removing a wetting potential from another end of the elongated droplet, thereby causing the droplet to be transported.
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