M2.3.1 - A 3D printed microfluidic device for droplet-based cell encapsulation and study
- Event
- EUROSENSORS XXXVII
2025-09-07 - 2025-09-10
Wroclaw - Band
- Lectures
- Chapter
- M2.3 - 3D Printed Microfluidics
- Author(s)
- D. Mazur, W. Kubicki - Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw (Poland)
- Pages
- 74 - 75
- DOI
- 10.5162/EUROSENSORS2025/M2.3.1
- ISBN
- 978-3-910600-07-2
- Price
- free
Abstract
This paper presents a 3D printed microfluidic chip for the encapsulation of biological cells in micro-droplets. The chip is capable of generating and trapping nanolitre-sized droplets of water-based cell culturing medium in the surrounding oil phase. Each droplet serves as an individual microincubator for cell culture study. The chip was fabricated using DLP 3D printing technology with a biocompatible GR-10 resin. The chip has successfully enabled the generation of droplets, the encapsulation of yeast cells and the real-time observation of their proliferation.