Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS), 2015 IEEE 10th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Xi´an
DOI :
10.1109/NEMS.2015.7147376
