Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : October 30, 2018 - November 01, 2018
This paper describes the synthesis method of core-shell hydrogel microbeads using centrifuge-based microfluidic device. In this method, centrifuge-based microfluidic device enables synthesizing core-shell beads easily and quickly without using oil or a syringe pump. We synthesized core-shell beads encapsulating with a carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) solution as the core, by making the shell of alginate hydrogel quickly gelled with calcium ions. We believe that this approach would have a wide range of application such as cell encapsulation beads and drug delivery system by using the biofunctional materials as the core with the assistance of heat control or light irradiation.
