Study of the morphology and kinetics control during the inorganic nanomaterial synthesis via the microfluidic platform and its chemical and biological application

Abstract

Micro total analysis system (μTAS) is the most prominent analysis tool for a biological and chemical assessment which includes an inherent fast reaction rate, high-throughput screening, ease integrity of the individual process unit, and convenient operation controllability. In the field of chemical synthesis and biological manipulation, there are several approaches to utilize the superior characteristics of the microfluidic platform such as continuous flow synthesis, droplet-based reaction manipulation, and in-situ nanostructure integration on the microchannel. Especially, droplet-based microfluidics can give thousands of the homogeneous individual reactors, therefore a more reproducible and reliable experimental results can be obtained with a high-throughput manner. In this thesis, not only a chemical synthesis and kinetic control with droplet-based microfluidics platform but also biological cell manipulation via in-situ nanostructure integrated microdevice have been described.