MICROREACTORS INCORPORATING INTERPENETRATING AND/OR SEMI-INTERPENETRATING POLYMERS

摘要

The present disclosure includes description of chemical, biological, and/or biochemical reactor chips and/or reaction systems such as a microreactor systems having interpenetrating and/or semi-interpenetrating polymer networks, as well as methods for constructing and using such systems. In some cases, the interpenetrating and/or semi-interpenetrating polymer networks may be used to determine analytes, for example, by the incorporation of a reaction entity to a interpenetrating and/or semi-interpenetrating polymer network able to interact with the analytes, which may be physically included within the network (for example, physically entagled), or chemically bonded to a polymer within the network (for example, cross-linked) in some cases. In certain embodiments, a chip and/or a reaction system may be constructed so as to promote cell growth within it. In some embodiments, the chip and/or reaction system may include one or more reaction sites. The reaction sites can be very small, for example, with a volume of less than about 1 ml. In certain embodiments, a chip and/or reaction system is able to detect, measure and/or control an environmental factor such as the temperature, pressure, CO<sub