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Hydrophilic polymeric coatings for enhanced, serial-siphon based flow control on centrifugal lab-on-disc platforms

Kitsara, Maria, Nwankire, Charles, O'Reilly, Adrian, Siegrist, Jonathan, Donohoe, Gerard Gary, Zhang, Xin, O'Kennedy, Richard and Ducrée, Jens orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-0366-1897 (2012) Hydrophilic polymeric coatings for enhanced, serial-siphon based flow control on centrifugal lab-on-disc platforms. In: μTAS 2012, 28 Oct - 1 Nov 2012, Okinawa, Japan.

Abstract
In this paper, we implement rotational flow control on a polymeric microfluidic “lab-on-a-disc” device by combining serial siphoning and capillary valving for sequential release of on-board stored liquid reagents. The functionality of this integrated, multi-step centrifugal assay platform is tightly linked by the capability to establish reproducible, capillary-driven priming of the innately hydrophobic siphon microchannels. We here demonstrate for the first time that spin-coated hydrophilic polymeric films of poly(vinyl alcohol) and (hydroxylpropyl)methylcellulose provide stable contact angles.
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Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Hydrophilization; spin coating; centrifugal microfluidic platform; lab-on-a-disc; capillary force; serial siphon
Subjects:UNSPECIFIED
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science and Health > School of Physical Sciences
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:17178
Deposited On:31 Oct 2012 14:57 by Fran Callaghan . Last Modified 27 Aug 2018 10:08
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