High throughput spectroscopy of pL droplets

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Autori principali: Sulliger, Marc, Arroyo, Jaime Ortega, Quidant, Romain
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Sulliger, Marc
Arroyo, Jaime Ortega
Quidant, Romain
author_facet Sulliger, Marc
Arroyo, Jaime Ortega
Quidant, Romain
contents Droplet microfluidics offers a versatile platform for analyzing liquid samples. Despite its potential, there is a lack of techniques that allow to reliably probe individual circulating droplets. The prospect of combining droplet microfluidics with sensitive, broadband spectroscopic techniques would therefore unlock new capabilities for various disciplines, including biomedicine and biochemistry. Here we present an integrated optofluidic platform that seamlessly combines droplet microfluidics and advanced hyperspectral imaging. This enables high-resolution, label-free analysis of single picolitre-sized droplets, providing valuable insights into their content. As a proof-of-principle, we demonstrate the ability of our platform to study rapid dynamic changes in a heterogeneous population of plasmonic nanoparticles with millisecond-time resolution. Furthermore, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the platform in biosensing applied to short DNA strands, achieving a detection sensitivity in the range of 100 pM. Finally, we show that the platform provides the flexibility to monitor samples over extended periods of time (hours) in a multiplexed manner.
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spellingShingle High throughput spectroscopy of pL droplets
Sulliger, Marc
Arroyo, Jaime Ortega
Quidant, Romain
Quantitative Methods
Biological Physics
Droplet microfluidics offers a versatile platform for analyzing liquid samples. Despite its potential, there is a lack of techniques that allow to reliably probe individual circulating droplets. The prospect of combining droplet microfluidics with sensitive, broadband spectroscopic techniques would therefore unlock new capabilities for various disciplines, including biomedicine and biochemistry. Here we present an integrated optofluidic platform that seamlessly combines droplet microfluidics and advanced hyperspectral imaging. This enables high-resolution, label-free analysis of single picolitre-sized droplets, providing valuable insights into their content. As a proof-of-principle, we demonstrate the ability of our platform to study rapid dynamic changes in a heterogeneous population of plasmonic nanoparticles with millisecond-time resolution. Furthermore, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the platform in biosensing applied to short DNA strands, achieving a detection sensitivity in the range of 100 pM. Finally, we show that the platform provides the flexibility to monitor samples over extended periods of time (hours) in a multiplexed manner.
title High throughput spectroscopy of pL droplets
topic Quantitative Methods
Biological Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04027