Alginate Bead Generation Pack

Alginate microparticles are used in a wide range of therapeutic applications including encapsulation, therapeutics delivery, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine and in vitro cell culture. Some of the striking characteristics of alginate beads are their biocompatible nature, easy gelation and availability of open functional groups with ease of manipulation to synthesize alginate derivatives with advanced desirable properties. Alginate microbeads are recommended due to their nontoxicity and biodegradability, and also because they are formed from naturally occurring polysaccharides and can be made from a rapid preparation method. 

The application note demonstrates that alginate beads can be successfully produced using our setup with precise control of droplet size. 

Moreover, it’s possible to use different concentrations of alginate due to the great flexibility of our system, which allows users to change the nozzle in case of working with high viscosity liquids. Changing capillary size can be easily done by the user to target different droplet sizes. 

Due to the precision and versatility of the Alginate bead generation pack, it’s possible to produce particles for various biological applications: encapsulation, drug delivery, stem cell culture, and tissue engineering scaffolds. 

Microfluidics for Alginate Microbeads Production – Tutorial video