Microfluidics for Biologists Fundamentals and Applications

5 Types of Paper and Its Functionalization Traditionally, rapid point-of-care tests use nitrocellulose membranes (e.g. membranes ...

lignin coming from wood). Unlike nitrocellulose membranes exhibiting hydropho- bic properties due to its cellulose acetate blend ...

capture. It should also be verified that binding capabilities are not altered during the manufacturing process or when assay is ...

widely used method. The rise of this technology goes back to 2007 when a description of the process for creating hydrophobic pat ...

predicted (see description in the earlier section). Reproducibility of channel dimen- sions and printing resolution will depend ...

wetting properties of the printed material is probably the most crucial optimization parameter to achieve good quality of the pr ...

controlled by PC (down to 0.5–0.8 mm with some optimization of cutting param- eters), or CO 2 laser can be used for cutting cell ...

[ 97 , 103 ], as well as potentiometric [ 103 , 123 ]. There are also more exotic varia- tions of these such as streaming potent ...

solely visual determination of test result, e.g. counting bars that turned colorful after analyte has reached it were demonstrat ...

Dickey M, Martinez A, Phillips S, et al. (2014) Paper-based microfluidic systems. US Patent8,921,118 Carrilho E, Martinez AW, ...

Chen C, Lin B-R, Wang H-K et al (2014) Paper-based immunoaffinity devices for accessible isolation and characterization of extr ...

Li C, Vandenberg K, Prabhulkar S et al (2011) Paper based point-of-care testing disc for multiplex whole cell bacteria analysis ...

Lutz B, Liang T, Fu E et al (2014) Dissolvable fluidic time delays for programming multi-step assays in instrument-free paper d ...

Sameenoi Y, Nongkai N, Nouanthavong S, Charles S (2014) One-step polymer screen- printing for microfluidic paper-based analytic ...

Cunningham JC, Kogan MR, Tsai Y-J et al (2016) Paper-based sensor for electrochemical detection of silver nanoparticle labels b ...

Chapter 8 Biological Applications of Microfluidics System Shipra Solanki and Chandra Mouli Pandey 1 Introduction In the last dec ...

The most exciting aspect of MF systems is probably the system integration with different biochemical operations such as sample ...

cell biology and tissue engineering. Improvements have been made in the basic requirements of cell culture in terms of required ...

with four inlets and one outlet. Four events of cell capturing in different droplets, cell lysis, reverse transcription reaction ...

microwell platform was used by Lepperdinger research group to culture bone- marrow-derived stem cells for several weeks [ 14 ]. ...