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

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Bio-inspired Information and Communication Technologies (BICT 2020)

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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.

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The authors acknowledge the financial support from BAP project fund by Bogazici University through the research project 15101. This work has been supported by the Turkish Directorate of Strategy and Budget under the TAM Project number DPT2007K120610.

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  1. Computer Engineering Department, NETLAB, Bogazici University, 34342, Istanbul, Turkey

    M. Gorkem Durmaz, Abdurrahman Dilmac, Z. Cansu Canbek Ozdil & Tuna Tugcu

  2. Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Bogazici University, 34342, Istanbul, Turkey

    Berk Camli, Ali Emre Pusane & Arda Deniz Yalcinkaya

  3. Chemical Engineering Department, Bogazici University, 34342, Istanbul, Turkey

    Elif Gencturk & Kutlu Ulgen

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  2. Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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Durmaz, M.G. et al. (2020). Preliminary Studies on Flow Assisted Propagation of Fluorescent Microbeads in Microfluidic Channels for Molecular Communication Systems. In: Chen, Y., Nakano, T., Lin, L., Mahfuz, M., Guo, W. (eds) Bio-inspired Information and Communication Technologies. BICT 2020. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 329. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57115-3_26

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