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. 2018 Jun 8;8:8763. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-27037-5

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Characteristics of droplets and particles. (A) Light microscope image shows consecutive droplets within the particle generator chip connected to syringe pumps. Acrylamide droplets were then polymerized into polyacrylamide particles. (BE) Fluorescence micrographs show polyacrylamide particles containing fluorescein-modified DNA. (B) Microparticles were generated by a microfluidic chip with cholesterol modified DNA and (C) without cholesterol-modified DNA. Polyacrylamide microparticles were also generated using mechanical homogenization (D) containing DNA with cholesterol and (E) without cholesterol. (F) Histograms show the distribution of cholesterol-modified DNA at the surface of particles manufactured using the microfluidic generator and (G) those manufactured using mechanical homogenization.