Smartphone-based electroporator system for micro/nano electroporation chips

Author

Shagoshtasbi, H. ; Riaz, K. ; Lee, Y.-K. ; Tse, K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. & Aerosp. Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kowloon, China

fYear

2015

fDate

7-11 April 2015

Firstpage

72

Lastpage

75

Abstract

A smartphone-based portable electroporator system, “Electroporation Lab on Smartphone,” for the micro/nano EP chips is designed and fabricated for the first time. An android application on a smartphone with a Bluetooth module and a library with different electroporation protocols, such as amplitude, duration, duty cycle and number of pulses is developed to control an Arduino MCU electric pulse generator. This system is successfully used to electroporate HeLa cells in micro/nano EP chips.

Keywords

Bluetooth; bioelectric phenomena; biomedical communication; cellular biophysics; lab-on-a-chip; microfabrication; nanofabrication; smart phones; Arduino MCU electric pulse generator; Bluetooth module; HeLa cell electroporation; android application; electroporation lab-on-smartphone; micro-nano electroporation chip design; micro-nano electroporation chip fabrication; smartphone-based portable electroporator system; Androids; Bluetooth; Cells (biology); Humanoid robots; Libraries; Nanobioscience; Protocols; Android; Arduino MCU; Bluetooth; HeLa cells; application; micro/nano electroporation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS), 2015 IEEE 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Xi´an

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NEMS.2015.7147376

Filename

7147376