The Firefly Platform


Firefly microparticles are produced by Optical Liquid Stamping, a microfabrication method developed in the laboratory of Prof. Patrick Doyle at MIT by combining microfluidics with photolithography. With this method, particles are printed on streams of photopolymerizable compounds, allowing graphical encoding and incorporation of biofunctional probes to occur in one step. This process combines the non-mixing and continuous nature of microfluidics with the precise sculpting of photolithography, transforming the synthesis of morphologically- and chemically-complex particles into a rapid and scalable process. The flexibility of this technology is such that particles can be designed from a very large set of parameters, such as:


Encoded Particles for Biomolecule Detection


Complex Shapes


Multiple Chemistries



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