Materials
Name | Company | Catalog Number | Comments |
1 ml Syringe | Becton-Dickinson, Franklin Lakes, NJ | 302104 | |
1.5 ml Microcentrifuge Tube | Smartgene | 6011-000 | |
10 ml Syringe | Becton-Dickinson, Franklin Lakes, NJ | 302151 | |
15 ml Centrifuge Tube | ThermoFisher Scientific,Waltham, MA | Falcon 352096 | |
150 mm Petri dish | Dogger Science | DP-43151 | |
1H,1H,2H,2H-Perfluorooctyltrichlorosilane | Alfa Aesar, Ward Hill, MA | 78560-45-9 | |
3 ml Syringe | Becton-Dickinson, Franklin Lakes, NJ | 302118 | |
4'' Silicon Dummy Wafer | Wollemi Technical, Taoyuan, Taiwan | ||
Acetone | ECHO Chemical, Miaoli, Taiwan | AH3102-000000-72EC | |
AG Double Expose Mask Aligner | M&R Nano Technology, Taoyuan, Taiwan | AG500-4D-D-V-S-H | |
Antibiotic-Antimyotic solution | ThermoFisher Scientific,Waltham, MA | GIBCO 15240-062 | |
Biopsy punch | Miltex, Plainsboro, NJ | 33-31 | |
Blunt needle | JensenGlobal, Santa Barbara, CA | Gauge 14 | |
Bright-Line Hemocytometer | Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO | Z359629 | for cell counting |
Buffered Oxide Etch | ECHO Chemical, Miaoli, Taiwan | PH3101-000000-72EC | |
Cell Culture Incubator | Caron, Marietta, OH | 6016-1 | |
COMSOL Multiphysics | COMSOL, Burlington, MA | Ver. 4.3b | for numerical simulation of chemical gradients in the device |
D-PBS | ThermoFisher Scientific,Waltham, MA | GIBCO 14190-144 | |
Desicattor | A-VAC Industries, Anaheim, CA | 35.10001.01 | |
DMEM/F12+GlutaMax-1 | ThermoFisher Scientific,Waltham, MA | GIBCO 10565-018 | |
Fetal Bovine Serum | ThermoFisher Scientific,Waltham, MA | GIBCO 10082 | |
Fibronectin from Human Plasma | Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO | F2006 | |
Inverted Fluorescence Microscope | Leica Microsystems, Wetzlar, Germany | DMIL LED | |
Isopropyl Alcohol (IPA) | ECHO Chemical, Miaoli, Taiwan | CMOS112-00000-72EC | |
JuLi Smart Fluorescence Cell Imager | NanoEnTek, Seoul, Korea | DBJ01B | |
Mechanical Convention Oven | ThermoFisher Scientific,Waltham, MA | Lindberg Blue M MO1450C | |
NaOH | Showa Chemical Industry, Tokyo, Japan | 1943-0150 | |
Plasma tretment system | Nordson MARCH, Concord CA | PX-250 | for oxygen plasma surface treatment |
Polycarbonate (PC) film | Quantum Beam Technologies, Tainan Taiwan | ||
Polydimehtylsiloxane (PDMS) | Dow Corning, Midland, MI | SYLGARD 184 | |
Pyrogallol | Alfa Aesar, Ward Hill, MA | A13405 | |
Removable Adhesive Putty | 3M | 860 | |
Sorvall Legend Mach 1.6R Tabletop Centrifuge | ThermoFisher Scientific,Waltham, MA | ||
Spin Coater | ELS Technology, Hsinchu, Taiwan | ELS 306MA | |
SU-8 2050 | MicroChem, Westborough, MA | SU-8 2050 | |
SU-8 Developer | MicroChem, Westborough, MA | Y020100 | |
Surgical blade | Feather, Osaka, Japan | 5005093 | for PDMS cutting |
Syringe Pump | Chemyx, Houston, TX | Fusion 400 | |
T75 Cell Culture Flask | ThermoFisher Scientific,Waltham, MA | Nunc 156367 | |
Trypan Blue Solution, 0.4% | ThermoFisher Scientific,Waltham, MA | 15250061 | |
Trypsin-EDTA | ThermoFisher Scientific,Waltham, MA | GIBCO 25200 | |
Tygon PTFE Tubing | Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, Akron, OH | ||
Tygon Tubing | Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, Akron, OH | 621 |
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