2006 AIChE Annual Meeting

(596c) Remote Controlled Microscale Chemistry

Authors

Hongke Ye, Johns Hopkins University
Emma Call, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
Timothy Leong, Johns Hopkins University
We describe a new nanoliter scale chemical encapsulation and release platform. The containers can be remotely guided and their contents can be remotely released to spatially engineer arbitrary chemical concentration profiles and chemical reactions in microfluidic devices. Hence the containers provide an attractive platform for engineering spatially controlled chemical reactions in microfluidic systems.