Modeling micropatterned antigen–antibody binding kinetics in a microfluidic chip

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• 作者：Guoqing Hu ; Yali Gao ; Dongqing Li
• 关键词：Microfluidics ; Numerical simulation ; Reaction kinetics ; Immunoassay ; Electrokinetically driven flow
• 刊名：Biosensors and Bioelectronics
• 出版年：2007
• 出版时间：15 February 2007
• 年：2007
• 卷：22
• 期：7
• 页码：1403-1409
• 全文大小：755 K

文摘

The reaction kinetics of antigen–antibody binding in the electrokinetically controlled microfluidic heterogeneous immunoassays has been investigated by numerical simulations. A two-dimensional computational model was employed to include the mass transport (convection and diffusion) and binding reaction between the antigen in the bulk flow and the immobilized antibody at the channel surface. The influence of the bulk velocity, the concentrations of the antibody and antigen, and the geometry of the microchips was studied for a variation of conditions and the guidance for designing of microfluidic immunoassay was provided. The model also shows that electrokinetically driven immunoassays have better reaction kinetics than pressure-driven ones, resulting from the plug-like velocity profile. Finally, a multi-patch immunoassay chip was analyzed and the reaction kinetics was optimized by rearranging the reaction patches at the channel surfaces.