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Development of Microfluidic Chips and a Customised Flow Control System for use in a Label-Free Cytometer
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Conventional cytometry uses fluorescently labelled cells that are laborious and costly to prepare. Using a label-free technique, individual cells can be differentiated by light scattering patterns, a result of different physical attributes. This thesis describes the development of a microfluidic...
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Spring 2014
Lab-on-chip systems will be a major component in the future of health care. These technologies enable point-of-care testing by miniaturizing and improving the efficiency of many diagnostic techniques. Possible applications include the detection of various pathogens using genetic amplification...
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Functionalized Bead Based Microchip for Immunoassay and Virus Immuno-affinity Chromatography
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We demonstrate the functionalization of a highly ordered porous molecular sieving matrix created by colloidal self-assembly (CSA) of 2 micrometer diameter silica particles in microfluidic chips, for highly efficient immuno-capture of viruses. By tuning the particle size, with appropriate surface...
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Design and Microfabrication of Robust and Highly Integrated Thermal Lab-On-A-Chip Polymeric Systems for Genetic Diagnosis
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The lab-on-chip (LOC) technology could transform and greatly enhance the health care system by making genetic diagnosis tests fast, accurate and readily accessible. However, most LOC systems are not prepared to resist variations of their external environment, as they depend upon many...
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Fall 2014
Microfluidic fuel cell (MFC) devices are a promising route towards on-chip power generation for microfluidic and lab-on-a-chip systems. Current MFCs leverage fabrication techniques and materials that have been inherited from micromachining technology and macro-scale fuel cell devices. Both,...
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Spring 2014
The development of rapid detection techniques to be applied at the point of use, has been gaining significant attention in the recent years. Rapid techniques are important and preferable methods in healthcare and environment sector due to the advantages they offer such as low-cost and reduced...
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Fall 2015
Caverhill-Godkewitsch, Saul A.
The infrastructure necessary to support diagnostic and pathogen-detection processes does not exist in some regions of the world that need it most. Access to fast, inexpensive and portable diagnostic infrastructure could be a solution to this problem. Next generation lab-on-chip (LOC) systems that...
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Fall 2015
An investigation of the velocity profile in a microscale (<5mm) channel using micro PIV technique is presented. Measuring the velocity profile in the microchannel becomes increasingly important with the improved attention to microscale devices. Theory dictates that flow in the channel has a...
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Protein Separation with Self-Assembled Nanoparticle Beds: Mechanism and Separation Performance
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This thesis reports the separation behavior of SDS-protein complexes in colloidal self-assembled (CSA) nanoparticle beds, and the processes of stabilization of CSA beds for high voltage separation. First, the variation of electrophoretic mobility with molecular weight (6.5-66 kDa) of SDS-protein...
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Spring 2016
Towards minimizing the cost of Micro Total Analysis Systems(µTAS) or Lab on a chip (LoC) systems, it is important to minimize manufacturing and assembly cost and time, and lower material costs. While the choice of material does govern material costs and the manufacturing process required and...