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. 2017 Mar 21;7:245. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-00229-1

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Basic MST designs: (A) MST operation with schematics of different trapping mechanisms: resistive, dielectrophoretic, inertial and sedimentation trapping; blue axis is parallel to gravity. The picture of the western hemisphere of earth on a transparent background was solely created by NASA and is in the public domain in the United States. (B) Simplified 3D (a) and 2D (b) MST design with a top (c) and side (d) view of a PDMS chip with these features; scale bar is 1000 μm.