Structure Governs the Deformability of Polymer Particles in a Microfluidic Blood Capillary Model

Huanli Sun; Mattias Bjoernmalm; Jiwei Cui; Edgar HH Wong; Yunlu Dai; Qiong Dai; Greg G Qiao; Frank Caruso

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Structure Governs the Deformability of Polymer Particles in a Microfluidic Blood Capillary Model

Huanli Sun, Mattias Bjoernmalm, Jiwei Cui, Edgar HH Wong, Yunlu Dai, Qiong Dai, Greg G Qiao, Frank Caruso

ACS Macro Letters | AMER CHEMICAL SOC | Published : 2015

DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.5b00591

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Frank Caruso Author Chemical Engineering

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Funding Acknowledgements

This research was conducted and funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Convergent Bio-Nano Science and Technology (CE140100036). This work was also supported by the ARC under the Australian Laureate Fellowship (FL120100030, F.C.), Future Fellowship (FT110100411, G.G.Q), Discovery Project (DP1094147 and DP130101846, F.C. and G.G.Q), and Super Science Fellowship (FS110200025, F.C. and G.G.Q.,) schemes, as well as the Australian Government through an Australian Postgraduate Award (M.B.). We acknowledge Martin P. van Koeverden for providing the ATRP macroinitiator and Junling Guo, Katelyn T. Gause, and Dr. Biao Kong for helpful discussions. This work was performed in part at the Materials Characterisation and Fabrication Platform (MCFP) at The University of Melbourne and the Victorian Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF).