Preliminary Studies on Flow Assisted Propagation of Fluorescent Microbeads in Microfluidic Channels for Molecular Communication Systems

Durmaz M. G., Dilmac A., Camli B., Gencturk E., Canbek Ozdil Z. C., PUSANE A. E., ...Daha Fazla

12th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies, BICT 2020, Shanghai, Çin, 7 - 08 Temmuz 2020, cilt.329 LNICST, ss.294-302, (Tam Metin Bildiri) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Cilt numarası: 329 LNICST
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/978-3-030-57115-3_26
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Shanghai
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Çin
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.294-302
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Flow assisted propagation, Microfluidic channel, Nanonetworking
  • Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

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.