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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2010
Filed:
May. 29, 2002
Xiaolian Gao, Houston, TX (US);
Xiaochuan Zhou, Houston, TX (US);
Erdogan Gulari, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Xiaolian Gao, Houston, TX (US);
Xiaochuan Zhou, Houston, TX (US);
Erdogan Gulari, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
The Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
University of Houston, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
This invention provides method and apparatus for performing chemical and biochemical reactions in solution using in situ generated photo-products as reagent or co-reagent. In particular, the present invention provides methods and devices for selectively converting photogenerated reagent precursors to photogenerated reagents comprising a substrate comprising at least one solid surface containing a plurality of isolated reaction sites; and an optical system operably linked to the substrate comprising a light source and a computer-controlled spatial optical modulator to form an irradiation pattern, wherein the irradiation pattern selectively irradiates a plurality of reaction sites without use of a photolithographic mask. The method and apparatus of the present invention have applications in parallel synthesis of molecular sequence arrays on solid surfaces.