TY - GEN
T1 - Glass microchannels fabricated by live plant root
AU - Nakashima, Shota
AU - Tokumaru, Kazuki
AU - Tsumori, Fujio
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was performed under the “Development of New Research Field Program” of Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University, with financial support. The silica powder was kindly provided by Admatechs Co. ltd. The authors are grateful for theses supports.
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Copyright© (2018) by Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society.All rights reserved.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - We fabricated silica microchannels by using a plant root as a template. A root spreads and branches three-dimensionally and has the finest parts, which are called root hair, at the root tips. The thickness of root hair is about 10 μm. We focused on this structure to apply to the μTAS field. We put a germinated plant seed so that the root grew in a compound material with silica particles. The compound with the root was heated to burn out the plant and sinter the material. In this way, we obtained the transparent sintered body with the root-shaped cavity. We also tried to control the growth of the root. We grew plants in the patterned channel filled with aqueous gel material and observed the root pattern.
AB - We fabricated silica microchannels by using a plant root as a template. A root spreads and branches three-dimensionally and has the finest parts, which are called root hair, at the root tips. The thickness of root hair is about 10 μm. We focused on this structure to apply to the μTAS field. We put a germinated plant seed so that the root grew in a compound material with silica particles. The compound with the root was heated to burn out the plant and sinter the material. In this way, we obtained the transparent sintered body with the root-shaped cavity. We also tried to control the growth of the root. We grew plants in the patterned channel filled with aqueous gel material and observed the root pattern.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85079901190
T3 - 22nd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2018
SP - 535
EP - 537
BT - 22nd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2018
PB - Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society
T2 - 22nd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2018
Y2 - 11 November 2018 through 15 November 2018
ER -