Materials and Manufacturing Methods for EWOD Devices: Current Status and Sustainability Challenges

O Caro‐Pérez, J Casals‐Terré… - Macromolecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Electrowetting‐on‐dielectric (EWOD) devices have proven to be effective tools for
precise microfluidic manipulation or in liquid lenses that surpass conventional solid lenses …

Beyond high voltage in the digital microfluidic devices for an integrated portable sensing system

X Min, WS Kim - Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 2019 - Springer
Digital microfluidics (DMFs) show great potential in the fields of lab-on-a-chip applications
for electro-chemical as well as biochemical sensing for decades. Various types of DMF …

Design of an open electrowetting on dielectric device based on printed circuit board by using a parafilm m

Z Yi, H Feng, X Zhou, L Shui - Frontiers in Physics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, the open electrowetting on dielectric (EWOD) device has been widely used
in biomedical detection, chemical synthesis analysis, and so on. However, the cost of using …

Closed EWOD-based low-cost portable thermal detection system for point-of-care applications

V Jain, RK Dwivedi, K Muralidhar - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Electrowetting-on-Dielectric (EWOD) is a powerful technology for biological and
chemical diagnostics. It offers advantages of low sample volume, high sensitivity, high …

Electrowetting on liquid-infused membrane for flexible and reliable digital droplet manipulation and application

J Cao, Q An, Z Liu, M Jin, Z Yan, W Lin, L Chen… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2019 - Elsevier
Droplet manipulation is a critical step for microfluidic applications. We present digital
microfluidic devices based on electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD) for reliable and …

Designing splicing digital microfluidics chips based on polytetrafluoroethylene membrane

H Feng, Z Yi, R Yang, X Qin, S Shen, W Zeng, L Shui… - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
As a laboratory-on-a-chip application tool, digital microfluidics (DMF) technology is widely
used in DNA-based applications, clinical diagnosis, chemical synthesis, and other fields …

A low-cost portable dynamic droplet sensing system for digital microfluidics applications

V Jain, RM Patrikar - IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A simple and low-cost open electrowetting on dielectric (EWOD)-based dynamic droplet
sensing system has been designed and fabricated to measure the droplet parameters. The …

Electrowetting on dielectric (EWOD) properties of Teflon-coated electrosprayed silica layers in air and oil media and the influence of electric leakage

JH Kim, JH Lee, JY Kim, A Mirzaei, P Wu… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
This paper reports the electrowetting (EW) properties of silica layers. Rough silica layers
were deposited on a Si substrate by the electrospraying of SiO2 for different times (10 s–10 …

Additively manufactured digital microfluidic platforms for ion-selective sensing

X Min, C Bao, WS Kim - ACS sensors, 2019 - ACS Publications
Digital microfluidic (DMF) sensors integrated with circuit systems have been applied to a
broad range of applications including biology, medicine, and chemistry. Compared with the …

Development of graphene oxide–PDMS composite dielectric for rapid droplet movement in digital microfluidic applications

M Basu, V Parihar, A Lincon, VP Joshi, S Das… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Dielectric breakdown puts an operating limit to the applied electric field in electrowetting-
based applications. Herein, we report that the electrical properties relevant to electrowetting …