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ArticleMicromachines2024

A Novel Microfluidics Droplet-Based Interdigitated Ring-Shaped Electrode Sensor for Lab-on-a-Chip Applications.

Salomão Moraes da Silva Junior, Luiz Eduardo Bento Ribeiro, Fabiano Fruett, Johan Stiens, Jacobus Willibrordus Swart, Stanislav Moshkalev

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Article in Micromachines, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Salomão Moraes da Silva JuniorElectronics & Informatics, Vrije Universiteit of Brussel, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-0793-7464
Luiz Eduardo Bento RibeiroSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering, State University of Campinas, Campinas 13083-852, Brazil.
Fabiano FruettSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering, State University of Campinas, Campinas 13083-852, Brazil.
Johan StiensElectronics & Informatics, Vrije Universiteit of Brussel, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-5049-7885
Jacobus Willibrordus SwartSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering, State University of Campinas, Campinas 13083-852, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-6426-0934
Stanislav MoshkalevCenter for Semiconductor Components and Nanotechnologies, State University of Campinas, Campinas 13083-852, Brazil.

Funding

National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) INCT NAMITEC 406193/2022-3
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Abstract

This paper presents a comprehensive study focusing on the detection and characterization of droplets with volumes in the nanoliter range. Leveraging the precise control of minute liquid volumes, we introduced a novel spectroscopic on-chip microsensor equipped with integrated microfluidic channels for droplet generation, characterization, and sensing simultaneously. The microsensor, designed with interdigitated ring-shaped electrodes (IRSE) and seamlessly integrated with microfluidic channels, offers enhanced capacitance and impedance signal amplitudes, reproducibility, and reliability in droplet analysis. We were able to make analyses of droplet length in the range of 1.0-6.0 mm, velocity of 0.66-2.51 mm/s, and volume of 1.07 nL-113.46 nL. Experimental results demonstrated that the microsensor's performance is great in terms of droplet size, velocity, and length, with a significant signal amplitude of capacitance and impedance and real-time detection capabilities, thereby highlighting its potential for facilitating microcapsule reactions and enabling on-site real-time detection for chemical and biosensor analyses on-chip. This droplet-based microfluidics platform has great potential to be directly employed to promote advances in biomedical research, pharmaceuticals, drug discovery, food engineering, flow chemistry, and cosmetics.

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droplet-based microfluidicsinterdigitated electrodelab-on-a-chip sensormicrofabrication and soft lithographymicrofluidics devicereal-timespectroscopic sensing

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PMID38930642
PMCPMC11205656

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