MICRO STORAGE, REACTION AND DETECTION CELLS AND METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR USE THEREOF

摘要

Disclosed are devices and methods for the storage, shipment, moving and/or transferring, mixing, reacting, isolation, conditioning, lyophilization, stabilization, metering, dispensing, detecting, manipulation and management of materials, particularly solids, powders and liquids. Each such device or method provides a means of storing one or more quantities of one or more materials in one or more reservoirs, optionally protecting said quantities from air, moisture or light. Optionally, multiple such reservoirs may be placed or arranged in ensembles such as in arrays or other physical patterns, optionally providing for the simultaneous, parallel or rapid access to more than one such reservoir at once. Devices and methods of the invention may also be configured to deliver material from a reservoir in such manner that a defined or desired quantity of material is dispensed from the reservoir or that such dispensing is performed at a defined or desired rate or that the material is dispensed until one or more criteria are met for such dispensing to cease.