Flow-through polymerase chain reaction inside a seamless 3D helical microreactor fabricated utilizing a silicone tube and a paraffin mold

Analyst. 2015 Mar 7;140(5):1416-20. doi: 10.1039/c4an01675k.

Abstract

We introduce a new strategy for fabricating a seamless three-dimensional (3D) helical microreactor utilizing a silicone tube and a paraffin mold. With this method, various shapes and sizes of 3D helical microreactors were fabricated, and a complicated and laborious photolithographic process, or 3D printing, was eliminated. With dramatically enhanced portability at a significantly reduced fabrication cost, such a device can be considered to be the simplest microreactor, developed to date, for performing the flow-through polymerase chain reaction (PCR).

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Equipment Design
  • Microtechnology / methods*
  • Paraffin / chemistry*
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction / instrumentation*
  • Silicones / chemistry*

Substances

  • Silicones
  • Paraffin