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ArticleMicrofluidics and nanofluidics2013

Software-programmable continuous-flow multi-purpose lab-on-a-chip.

Ahmed M Amin, Raviraj Thakur, Seth Madren, Han-Sheng Chuang, Mithuna Thottethodi, T N Vijaykumar, Steven T Wereley, Stephen C Jacobson

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Article in Microfluidics and nanofluidics, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Ahmed M AminMicrofluidic Innovations, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA.
Raviraj ThakurBirck Nanotechnology Center, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
Seth MadrenDepartment of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
Han-Sheng ChuangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
Mithuna ThottethodiSchool of Electrical and Computer N.Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA mithuna@purdue.edu.
T N VijaykumarSchool of Electrical and Computer N.Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA vijay@ecn.purdue.edu.
Steven T WereleyBirck Nanotechnology Center, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA wereley@purdue.edu.
Stephen C JacobsonDepartment of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA jacobson@indiana.edu.

Funding

Automatic Compilation and Optimization for Programmable Lab on a ChipR43EB012392 · NIBIB · MICROFLUIDIC INNOVATIONS, LLC · PI AMIN, AHMED · 2010 to 2010
$125k
NIBIB NIH HHS R43 EB012392
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Current lab-on-a-chip (LoC) devices are assay-specific and are custom-built for each single experiment. Performing an experiment requires scientists or engineers to go through the time-consuming process of designing, fabricating, and testing a chip before conducting the actual experiment. This prolonged cycle can take months to complete, increasing effort and cost and reducing productivity. Similarly, minor modifications to an assay protocol re-incur the overheads of the design cycle. In this paper, we develop a

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PMCPMC3889662

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