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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2020
Miroculus Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Eduardo Cervantes, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mais Jehan Jebrail, Toronto, CA;
mirOculus Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Compositions for preventing or limiting surface fouling as well as evaporation and methods for their use in air-matrix digital microfluidics (DMF) apparatuses are described. A mobilizing wax material may be used to selectively encapsulate a reaction droplet in the air gap of the apparatus, which permits the at least partially encapsulated reaction droplet to be portable within the DMF apparatus. Additional aqueous droplets may be combined with the encapsulated droplet, by merging with an aqueous droplet having a coating of a secondary material (e.g., an oil or other hydrophobic material) that may allow combining of the droplets. The compositions may be additionally useful in non-DMF applications such as laboratory protocols for hybridization, ligation and amplification.