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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2006
Derek J. Hansford, Columbus, OH (US);
Robbie J. Walczak, Hilliard, OH (US);
Anthony A. Boiarski, Hilliard, OH (US);
Derek J. Hansford, Columbus, OH (US);
Robbie J. Walczak, Hilliard, OH (US);
Anthony A. Boiarski, Hilliard, OH (US);
The Ohio State University Research Foundation, Columbus, OH (US);
Abstract
A nanopump for pumping small volumes of electrolyte solution under the control of a voltage source is described. The device includes a chamber and a nanopore membrane which partitions the chamber into upstream and downstream regions. When a voltage potential is applied across the membrane, electroosmotic flow through the membrane channels produces a precise-volume flow between the two chamber regions. A method for precise-volume pumping employing the nanopump and a nanopump device for determining the lengths of nucleic acid fragments in an electrolyte solution of different-length fragments are also described.