Research Article
Preliminary Studies on Flow Assisted Propagation of Fluorescent Microbeads in Microfluidic Channels for Molecular Communication Systems
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-57115-3_26, author={M. Gorkem Durmaz and Abdurrahman Dilmac and Berk Camli and Elif Gencturk and Z. Cansu Canbek Ozdil and Ali Emre Pusane and Arda Deniz Yalcinkaya and Kutlu Ulgen and Tuna Tugcu}, title={Preliminary Studies on Flow Assisted Propagation of Fluorescent Microbeads in Microfluidic Channels for Molecular Communication Systems}, proceedings={Bio-inspired Information and Communication Technologies. 12th EAI International Conference, BICT 2020, Shanghai, China, July 7-8, 2020, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={BICT}, year={2020}, month={8}, keywords={Nanonetworking Microfluidic channel Flow assisted propagation}, doi={10.1007/978-3-030-57115-3_26} }- M. Gorkem Durmaz
Abdurrahman Dilmac
Berk Camli
Elif Gencturk
Z. Cansu Canbek Ozdil
Ali Emre Pusane
Arda Deniz Yalcinkaya
Kutlu Ulgen
Tuna Tugcu
Year: 2020
Preliminary Studies on Flow Assisted Propagation of Fluorescent Microbeads in Microfluidic Channels for Molecular Communication Systems
BICT
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-57115-3_26
Abstract
High throughput microfluidic devices coupled with optical detection systems bring several advantages to study molecular communication (MC) by mimicking capillary vessels and arterioles. Motivated by this, we present an MC platform using fluorescence polystyrene (PS) beads as messenger molecules to transfer encoded information in microfluidic channels via flow induced diffusion. To this end, we couple multiple production and analysis techniques to construct and characterize our micro scale MC system. PS microbeads are introduced into microchannels via programmable syringe pumps serving as transmitters, while the received signal is recorded by inverted fluorescence microscope. Time lapsed images of microparticles are presented as they move across diffusion channels.
