High‐Efficient Microfluidic Single‐Cell Trapping and Arraying with Absolute Sequential Capture and High Success Rate of Perfect Capture

Abstract Methodological improvement to single‐cell manipulation is critical for exploring the fundamentals of cellular life and unraveling biological complexity. Although micro‐manipulation technologies capable of precise cell localization have been widely established, scaling existing platforms for highly efficient single‐cell immobilization without sacrificing cell viability and sample quantity has proven challenging. Here, a highly efficient single‐cell trapping and arraying approach is introduced by advancing the performance of a microfluidic mechanical trapping chip. The chip can achieve representative single‐cell capture with over 99% efficiency and at least a 75% success rate of perfect capture, a precisely controlled single‐cell array, absolute sequential cell captures without cell loss, and the maintenance of high cell viability during the whole manipulation process. This approach enables diverse single‐cell trapping, large‐scale arraying manipulations, and dynamic cellular and molecular analysis, and offers a path toward the development of high‐performance single‐cell systems.