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A 96-well solid-phase reversible immobilization (SPRI) reactor plate was designed to demonstrate functional titer plate-based microfluidic platforms. Nickel, large area mold inserts were fabricated using an SU-8 based, UV-LIGA technique on 150 mm diameter silicon substrates. Prior to UV exposure, the prebaked SU-8 resist was flycut to reduce the total thickness variation to less than 5 μm. Excellent UV lithography results, with highly vertical sidewalls, were obtained in the SU-8 by using an UV filter to remove high absorbance wavelengths below 350 nm. Overplating of nickel in the SU-8 patterns produced high quality, high precision, metal mold inserts, which were used to replicate titer plate-based SPRI reactors using hot embossing of polycarbonate (PC). Optimized molding conditions yielded good feature replication fidelity and feature location integrity over the entire surface area. Thermal fusion bonding of the molded PC chips at 150°C resulted in leak-free sealing, which was verified in leakage tests using a fluorescent dye. The assembled SPRI reactor was used for simple, fast purification of genomic DNA from whole cell lysates of several bacterial species, which was verified by PCR amplification of the purified genomic DNA.
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This work was supported by the National Science Foundation and the State of Louisiana Board of Regents Support Fund under grant number EPS-0346411, and the State of Louisiana Board of Regents Support Fund, Industrial Ties Program through grant number LEQSF(2005-08)-RD-B-04. The authors thank the staff of the Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD) at Louisiana State University for the microfabrication support. J. Guy was funded by a Louisiana Governor’s Biotechnology Initiative grant.
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Park, D.SW., Hupert, M.L., Witek, M.A. et al. A titer plate-based polymer microfluidic platform for high throughput nucleic acid purification. Biomed Microdevices 10, 21–33 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10544-007-9106-y
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