Aqueous Droplets Used as Enzymatic Microreactors and Their Electromagnetic ActuationHuschyar Al-Kaidy 1, Kai Kuthan 1, Thomas Hering 1, Nils Tippkötter 1,2
1Institute of Bioprocess Engineering, University of Kaiserslautern, 2Bioprocess Engineering, University of Applied Sciences, FH Aachen
Lab-in-a-drop reaction systems allow the versatile implementation of complex reactions in a microfluidic scale. An automated actuation platform consisting of a 3 x 3 matrix of electromagnetic coils was developed and successfully used to merge two 10 µL microreactors and thereby initiate an enzymatic reaction in the resulting liquid marbles.