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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Michael Rubner, Westford, MA (US);
Brian L. Wardle, Lexington, MA (US);
Robert E. Cohen, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);
Mehmet Toner, Wellesley, MA (US);
Fabio Fachin, Cambridge, MA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
A microfluidic device for manipulating particles can include a substrate and one or more obstacles, each obstacle comprising a plurality of aligned nanostructures including a plurality of nanoparticles or a plurality of polymer layers, or a combination thereof. The obstacle on a substrate can be forests with intra-carbon nanotube spacing ranging between 5-100 nm for isolation of particles such as very small viruses and proteins.