Hierarchical micro and nano structured, hydrophilic, superhydrophobic and superoleophobic surfaces incorporated in microfluidics, microarrays and lab on chip …

E Gogolides, K Ellinas, A Tserepi - Microelectronic Engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
Control of wetting properties at the extremes of wetting states (superhydrophilic and
superhydrophobic) is important for many applications, such as self-cleaning, anti-fogging …

Clustered Regularly Interspaced short palindromic repeats‐Based Microfluidic System in Infectious Diseases Diagnosis: Current Status, Challenges, and Perspectives

Y Xie, H Li, F Chen, S Udayakumar, K Arora… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Mitigating the spread of global infectious diseases requires rapid and accurate diagnostic
tools. Conventional diagnostic techniques for infectious diseases typically require …

How different are fog collection and dew water harvesting on surfaces with different wetting behaviors?

D Nioras, K Ellinas, V Constantoudis… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
As the clean water shortage becomes a serious problem for mankind, atmospheric water
harvesting has emerged as a viable solution. Two main approaches to collect water from the …

Lab-on-Chip platform and protocol for rapid foodborne pathogen detection comprising on-chip cell capture, lysis, DNA amplification and surface-acoustic-wave …

K Tsougeni, G Kaprou, CM Loukas, G Papadakis… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2020 - Elsevier
We present an integrated, compact, lab on a chip (LoC) platform and protocol for rapid
pathogen analysis in food samples. The proposed LoC is based on an oxygen plasma …

Controlling roughness: from etching to nanotexturing and plasma-directed organization on organic and inorganic materials

E Gogolides, V Constantoudis, G Kokkoris… - Journal of Physics D …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe how plasma–wall interactions in etching plasmas lead to either random
roughening/nanotexturing of polymeric and silicon surfaces, or formation of organized …

Superhydrophobic and superhydrophilic polycarbonate by tailoring chemistry and nano‐texture with plasma processing

F Palumbo, R Di Mundo, D Cappelluti… - Plasma Processes …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Versatility of plasma processing is demonstrated for the preparation of nanotextured
polycarbonate surfaces with superior wettability properties. Tens of nanometers wide pillar …

Plasma nanotextured polymeric lab-on-a-chip for highly efficient bacteria capture and lysis

K Tsougeni, G Papadakis, M Gianneli… - Lab on a Chip, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
We describe the design, fabrication, and successful demonstration of a sample preparation
module comprising bacteria cell capture and thermal lysis on-chip with potential applications …

Aluminum metasurface with hybrid multipolar plasmons for 1000-fold broadband visible fluorescence enhancement and multiplexed biosensing

RH Siddique, S Kumar, V Narasimhan, H Kwon… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Aluminum (Al)-based nanoantennae traditionally suffer from weak plasmonic performance in
the visible range, necessitating the application of more expensive noble metal substrates for …

Integrated micropillar polydimethylsiloxane accurate CRISPR detection system for viral DNA sensing

KN Hass, M Bao, Q He, L Liu, J He, M Park, P Qin… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
A fully Integrated Micropillar Polydimethylsiloxane Accurate CRISPR deTection (IMPACT)
system is developed for viral DNA detection. This powerful system is patterned with high …

Three-dimensional plasma micro–nanotextured cyclo-olefin-polymer surfaces for biomolecule immobilization and environmentally stable superhydrophobic and …

K Ellinas, K Tsougeni, PS Petrou, G Boulousis… - Chemical Engineering …, 2016 - Elsevier
Cyclo-olefin polymer (COP) surfaces are micro–nanotextured using O 2 plasma chemistry in
one-step process. These surfaces subsequently display multiple functionality,(A) they are …