Single-use, disposable, point-of-care diagnostic devices carry great promise for global
health, including meeting urgent needs for testing and diagnosis in places with limited …

Readily deployable, low-cost point-of-care medical devices such as lateral flow assays
(LFAs), microfluidic paper-based analytical devices (μPADs), and microfluidic thread-based …

Paper is a widely used support for use in devices for point-of-care testing (POCT) in clinical
diagnosis, food safety monitoring and environmental pollution. Paper is inexpensive …

Over the past decades, researchers have been seeking attractive substrate materials to
keep microfluidics improving to outbalance the drawbacks and issues. Cellulose substrates …

Wearable devices have received tremendous interests in human sweat analysis in the past
few years. However, the widely used polymeric substrates and the layer-by-layer stacking …

Microfluidic devices based on textile threads have interesting advantages when compared
to systems made with traditional materials, such as polymers and inorganic substrates …

Studies on microfluidic thread-based analytical devices (μTADs) have been developed for a
decade. Threads, made of natural cellulose or synthesized polymer fibres, are manufactured …

Affordable and accessible diagnostic tools in resource-limited settings remains an urgent
need to improve global public health. Due to the low-cost, accessibility, simplicity and …

In this study, we present a simple, hand-powered, and electricity-free centrifuge platform
based on a commercially available “fidget-spinner.” The centrifugal force provided by this …

Technological developments in recent years have witnessed a paradigm shift towards lab‐
on‐chip devices for various diagnostic applications. Lab‐on‐chip technology integrates …