A Microfluidic Device for DNA Tile Self-assembly
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چکیده
In order to self-assemble desired DNA nanostructure, it is necessary to suppress assembly errors caused by fluctuations of temperature and concentration. We propose a microfluidic device to directly control such environmental parameters of DNA self-assembly. In this paper, some experimental results concerned with key processes of self-assembly in the device, such as immobilizing DNA strands in a reaction chamber and relation rate of hybridization under flow condition are reported.
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