Sentences with phrase «microfluidic pumps»
Artificial muscles are well suited to powering microfluidic pumps, for example, on the lab - on - a-chip devices prized by medicine and industry.
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Chemist John Pojman of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge adds that such roving droplets «might be useful as a pumping mechanism for microfluidics, converting chemical energy to mechanical motion in small devices,» such as the microfluidic labs - on - a-chip many researchers are developing as diagnostic machines.
They pumped in a solution containing small amounts of PSA and found that the array captured the antigen effectively, throughout the forest, rather than just on the outer surface of a typical microfluidic element.
On the other side of the membrane, the glucose is mixed with a fluid and pumped through the microfluidics chip, while enzymes are added to trigger a reaction.
Glucolight spares the premature babies blood samples and enables the blood sugar level to be monitored permanently thanks to the sensor's novel measuring technology, which comprises several parts: A microdialysis measuring head, which was developed at the University Hospital Zurich, with a «smart» membrane developed at Empa; light sources; a pump; and a microfluidics chip with a fluorometer, also developed at the University Hospital Zurich.
The research group integrated two externally - driven on - chip pumps into the microfluidic chip for high - speed flow control.
The microfluidic device is the size of a bento box and has a series of cables and pumps that cause media (simulated blood) to flow between wells.
The researchers view their system as an alternative to the microfluidic devices now commonly used in biological research, in which biological solutions are pumped through microscopic channels connected by mechanical valves.
«Traditional microfluidic systems use tubes, valves, and pumps,» says Udayan Umapathi, a researcher at the MIT Media Lab, who led the development of the new system.
«Enhancing lab - on - a-chip peristalsis with electro - osmosis: Researchers have conducted analyses to electrically increase liquid flow in pump - free microfluidic devices.»
A different method to previous sensors Glucolight spares the premature babies blood samples and enables the blood sugar level to be monitored permanently thanks to the sensor's novel measuring technology, which comprises several parts: A microdialysis measuring head, which was developed at the University Hospital Zurich, with a «smart» membrane developed at Empa; light sources; a pump; and a microfluidics chip with a fluorometer, also developed at the University Hospital Zurich.
As part of his post-doctoral research at University of Chicago he co-invented the SlipChip - a multiplexed microfluidic platform for high - throughput droplet - based chemistry and biochemistry without pumps or valves.