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Fabrication Of 3d Hydrogel-Based Microscale Tissue Analog Chip With Integrated Optofluidics, Venkatakrishnan Rengarajan
Fabrication Of 3d Hydrogel-Based Microscale Tissue Analog Chip With Integrated Optofluidics, Venkatakrishnan Rengarajan
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Lab-on-a-chip (LOC) is a device that integrates one or more laboratory functions in a single chip with dimensions ranging from a micrometer to a few millimeters. On-chip optofluidics, which combines microfluidics and tunable micro-optical components, is crucial for bio-sensing applications. However, recently reported optofluidic devices have only two-dimensional (2D) dielectric or metallic regions for sensing cellular activity, which fail to mimic the three-dimensional (3D) in vivo microenvironment of cells.
In this research, a 3D hydrogel-based micro-scale-tissue-analog-chip (µTAC) is fabricated with an integrated optofluidic design for biomedical applications. These 3D hydrogels act as a scaffold for the cellular studies and as …