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Life-Saving Threads: Advances in Textile-Based Analytical Devices

Year: 2019

Type: review

Abstract: Novel approaches that incorporate electrofluidic and microfluidic technologies are reviewed to illustrate the translation of traditional enclosed structures into open and accessible textile based platforms. Through the utilization of on-fiber and on-textile microfluidics, it is possible to invert the typical enclosed capillary column or microfluidic "chip" platform, to achieve surface accessible efficient separations and fluid handling, while maintaining a microfluidic environment. The open fiber/textile based fluidics approach immediately provides new possibilities to interrogate, manipulate, redirect, extract, characterize, and quantify solutes and target species at any point in time during such processes as on-fiber electrodriven separations. This approach is revolutionary in its simplicity and provides many potential advantages not otherwise afforded by the more traditional enclosed platforms.

Source: ACS Combinatorial Science

DOI: 10.1021/acscombsci.8b00126

Authors: Syamak Farajikhah, Joan M. Cabot, Peter C. Innis, Brett Paull, Gordon Wallace

Institutions: University of Wollongong, ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science, University of Tasmania, Australian Centre for Research on Separation Science, Australian National Fabrication Facility

Language: English

Topic: Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications

Subfield: Biomedical Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science, Australian Research Council

Award: G2068948962