[HTML][HTML] Point-of-care devices for pathogen detections: The three most important factors to realise towards commercialization

T Nguyen, VA Chidambara, SZ Andreasen… - TrAC Trends in …, 2020 - Elsevier
The development of lab-on-a-chip technology and its applications in biochemical and
biomedical analyses has, during the last two decades, led to the potential realisation of …

[HTML][HTML] Protein unfolding mechanisms and their effects on folding experiments

LJ Lapidus - F1000Research, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In this review, I discuss the various methods researchers use to unfold proteins in the lab in
order to understand protein folding both in vitro and in vivo. The four main techniques …

Multilayer soft photolithography fabrication of microfluidic devices using a custom-built wafer-scale PDMS slab aligner and cost-efficient equipment

T Nguyen, T Sarkar, T Tran, SM Moinuddin, D Saha… - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
We present a robust, low-cost fabrication method for implementation in multilayer soft
photolithography to create a PDMS microfluidic chip with features possessing multiple …

Numerical and Experimental Investigation on a “Tai Chi”-Shaped Planar Passive Micromixer

A Xia, C Shen, C Wei, L Meng, Z Hu, L Zhang, M Chen… - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
(1) Background: Microfluidic chips have found extensive applications in multiple fields due to
their excellent analytical performance. As an important platform for micro-mixing, the …

RGB-detector: A smart, low-cost device for reading RGB indexes of microfluidic paper-based analytical devices

BM Pazzi, D Pistoia, G Alberti - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
A user-friendly, low-cost detector able to read the RGB indexes of microfluidic paper-based
analytical devices (µPADs) was developed. The RGB-detector was built with 3D printing …

Innovative 3D microfluidic tools for on-chip fluids and particles manipulation: From design to experimental validation

S Zoupanou, MS Chiriacò, I Tarantini, F Ferrara - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Micromixers are essential components in lab-on-a-chip devices, of which the low efficiency
can limit many bio-application studies. Effective mixing with automation capabilities is still a …

Rapid microfluidic mixer based on ferrofluid and integrated microscale NdFeB-PDMS magnet

R Zhou, AN Surendran, M Mejulu, Y Lin - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Ferrofluid-based micromixers have been widely used for a myriad of microfluidic industrial
applications in biochemical engineering, food processing, and detection/analytical …

Numerical investigation of mixing by induced electrokinetic flow in T-micromixer with conductive curved arc plate

V Goodarzi, SH Jafarbeygi, RA Taheri, M Sheremet… - Symmetry, 2021 - mdpi.com
Mixing is essential in microdevices. Therefore, increasing the mixing efficiency has a
significant influence on these devices. Using conductive obstacles with special geometry …

3D printing in solid dosage forms and organ-on-chip applications

T Kassem, T Sarkar, T Nguyen, D Saha, F Ahsan - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
3D printing (3DP) can serve not only as an excellent platform for producing solid dosage
forms tailored to individualized dosing regimens but can also be used as a tool for creating a …

Large-scale flow in micro electrokinetic turbulent mixer

K Nan, Z Hu, W Zhao, K Wang, J Bai, G Wang - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
In the present work, we studied the three-dimensional (3D) mean flow field in a micro
electrokinetic (μEK) turbulence based micromixer by micro particle imaging velocimetry …