IP Library Granted Patent US 8,252,249
Granted Patent B2
US 8,252,249 · App. 11/783,892 · Granted Aug 28, 2012

Biochemical chip and production method thereof

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Patent No.
US 8,252,249
App. No.
11/783,892
Granted
Aug 28, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A biochemical chip in which at least the inner surface of a flow path is covered with a chemisorption monomolecular film having arbitrary surface energy, and the method includes: a step for pre-forming a chemisorption monomolecular film having arbitrary surface energy on the inner surfaces of flow path parts of first and second members which are processed to have flow paths; and a step for facing and bonding the first and second members.

Claims (38)

1. A biochemical chip, comprising:

a flow path including an inner surface having at least a portion that is covered with an arbitrary chemisorption monomolecular film as a surface layer having arbitrary surface energy, wherein the arbitrary chemisorption monomolecular film is formed with a mixed monomolecular film including at least a first monomolecular component having a terminal fluorocarbon group mixed with a second monomolecular component having a terminal hydrocarbon group, wherein the surface energy of the monomolecular film has an arbitrary value of about 2.6 mN/m.

2. The biochemical chip of claim 1 , wherein the flow rate of a liquid in the flow path is controlled by varying the surface energy of the arbitrary chemisorption monomolecular film coating the flow path, wherein the mixed monomolecular film includes at least a first monomolecular component and a second monomolecular component, the first monomolecular component and a second monomolecular component having the following structures:

first monomolecular component; and

second monomolecular component;

wherein R 1 and R 2 are independently selected from Cl or (OCH 3 ).

3. The biochemical chip according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein the inner surface of the flow path is selectively covered with a chemisorption monomolecular film having a plurality of arbitrary surface energies.

4. The biochemical chip of claim 1 or 2 , wherein the flow path is located within a chemical chip, an electrophoresis chip, a biochemical reactor, a biochemical fluidic system, or combination thereof.

5. The biochemical chip of claim 1 or 2 , wherein the flow path has a cross-sectional dimension of from about 1 micron to about 5 microns.

6. A production method of a biochemical chip comprising:

a step of forming an arbitrary chemisorption monomolecular film as a surface layer having arbitrary surface energy on at least a portion of inner surfaces of flow path parts of first and second members which are processed to have flow paths, wherein at least a first monomolecular component includes a terminal fluorocarbon group and a second monomolecular component includes a terminal hydrocarbon group, the first and second molecular components are mixed and used so as to form the arbitrary chemisorption monomolecular film having the mixed first and second monomolecular components, wherein the surface energy of the monomolecular film has an arbitrary value of about 2.6 mN/m; and

a step of facing and bonding the first and second members that have the monomolecular film.

7. The production method of a biochemical chip according to claim 6 , comprising:

a step of contacting and reacting the first member and second member with a chemisorption liquid produced by mixing a non-aqueous organic solvent with a first chlorosilane compound containing the terminal fluorocarbon group and a second chlorosilane compound containing the terminal hydrocarbon group, and forming the first and second members having the arbitrary chemisorption monomolecular film containing the first monomolecular component having the terminal fluorocarbon group mixed with the second monomolecular component having the terminal hydrocarbon group; or

a step of contacting and reacting the first member and second member with a chemisorption liquid produced by mixing a non-aqueous organic solvent with a first alkoxysilane compound containing the terminal fluorocarbon group and a second alkoxysilane compound containing the terminal hydrocarbon group, and forming the first and second members having the arbitrary chemisorption monomolecular film containing the first monomolecular component having the terminal fluorocarbon group mixed with the second monomolecular component having the terminal hydrocarbon group.

8. The method of claim 6 , further comprising selectively forming resist films on the first and second members so as to define the flow paths.

9. The method of claim 6 , wherein the mixed first and second monomolecular components have the following structures:

first monomolecular component; and

second monomolecular component;

wherein R 1 and R 2 are independently selected from Cl or (OCH 3 ).

10. The method of claim 7 , comprising forming the arbitrary chemisorption monomolecular film having the mixed first and second monomolecular components with a silanol condensing agent and one or more of a ketamine compound, organic acid, aldimine compound, enamine compound, oxazolidine compound, and/or aminoalkylalkoxy silane.

11. The method of claim 7 , comprising forming the arbitrary chemisorption monomolecular film having the mixed first and second monomolecular components with one or more of a ketamine compound, organic acid, aldimine compound, enamine compound, oxazolidine compound, and/or aminoalkylalkoxy silane as the silanol condensing agent.

12. A biochemical chip, comprising:

two substrates coupled together and defining an internal fluid flow path;

an arbitrary chemisorption monomolecular film covering at least a portion of the internal fluid flow path as a surface layer having a surface energy about 2.6 mN/m, wherein the chemisorption monomolecular film includes:

at least a first monomolecular component having a terminal fluorocarbon group and a second monomolecular component having a terminal a hydrocarbon group.

13. The biochemical chip of claim 12 , wherein the first and second monomolecular components have the following structures:

first monomolecular component; and

second monomolecular component;

wherein R 1 and R 2 are independently selected from Cl or (OCH 3 ).

14. The biochemical chip of claim 12 , wherein the chemisorption monomolecular film has a plurality of arbitrary surface energies.

15. A production method of a biochemical chip comprising:

a step of forming an arbitrary chemisorption monomolecular film as a surface layer having arbitrary surface energy on at least a portion of inner surfaces of flow path parts of first and second members which are processed to have flow paths, wherein the monomolecular film is formed with a silanol condensing agent and/or one or more of a ketamine compound, organic acid, aldimine compound, enamine compound, oxazolidine compound, and/or aminoalkylalkoxy silane, wherein at least a first monomolecular component includes a terminal fluorocarbon group and a second monomolecular component includes a terminal hydrocarbon group, the first and second molecular components are mixed and used so as to form the arbitrary chemisorption monomolecular film having the mixed first and second monomolecular components; and

a step of facing and bonding the first and second members that have the monomolecular film.

16. The production method of a biochemical chip according to claim 15 , comprising:

a step of contacting and reacting the first member and second member with a chemisorption liquid produced by mixing a non-aqueous organic solvent with a first chlorosilane compound containing the terminal fluorocarbon group and a second chlorosilane compound containing the terminal hydrocarbon group, and forming the first and second members having the arbitrary chemisorption monomolecular film containing the first monomolecular component having the terminal fluorocarbon group mixed with the second monomolecular component having the terminal hydrocarbon group; or

a step of contacting and reacting the first member and second member with a chemisorption liquid produced by mixing a non-aqueous organic solvent with a first alkoxysilane compound containing the terminal fluorocarbon group and a second alkoxysilane compound containing the terminal hydrocarbon group, and forming the first and second members having the arbitrary chemisorption monomolecular film containing the first monomolecular component having the terminal fluorocarbon group mixed with the second monomolecular component having the terminal hydrocarbon group.

17. The method of claim 15 , comprising preparing the monomolecular film to have a surface energy with an arbitrary value of about 2.6 mN/m.

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RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST IN PATENTS, RECORDED ON JANUARY 29, 2019 AT REEL 048373 FRAME 0217 Recorded Sep 22, 2025
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