{"id":6692,"date":"2017-09-20T07:47:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T07:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=6692"},"modified":"2017-09-20T07:47:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T07:47:10","slug":"microalgae-separation-takes-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/microalgae-separation-takes-shape.html","title":{"rendered":"Microalgae Separation Takes Shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from UCLA and the University of Tokyo have demonstrated a new capability to sort microalgae cells by their shape, creating a baseline of uniform cells for a large range of research, industrial and clinical applications. While traditional separation methods are based on porous filters or sedimentation in which cells settle due to gravity, this is the first time shape-based separation has been made possible.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5496 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/microalgae-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/microalgae-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/microalgae-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The researchers developed a continuous flow \u201cinertial microfluidic\u201d technique to filter\u00a0<em>E. gracilis<\/em>\u00a0by a key shape parameter-cell aspect ratio. \u00a0The researchers found that due to the momentum of the fluid flowing around the algae, cells migrated differentially when flowed through a precisely-shaped channel and the distance to the channel centerline decreased with increasing cell aspect ratio, the ratio of the cell\u2019s length to width.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.ucla.edu\/microalgae-separation-takes-shape\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from UCLA and the University of Tokyo have demonstrated a new capability to sort microalgae cells by their shape, creating a baseline of uniform cells for a large range of research, industrial and clinical applications. While traditional separation methods are based on porous filters or sedimentation in which cells settle due to gravity, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[615,576],"tags":[136],"class_list":["post-6692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-2","category-university-research","tag-algae-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6693,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692\/revisions\/6693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}