SLIDE 3 Paper substrate: Passive paper microfluidic chip: Passive vs. Active paper microfluidic chips
- General: Abundant fiber, low-cost, writable, light, flexible, flammable
- Physical: Capillary force to wick a flow of liquid sample
Flow channel: Patterned hydrophobic to confined the capillary fiber Adjust drop speed by the wide or density of flow channel
Pregnancy test (1976) Litmus paper, Chromatography
ELISA paper chip
Harvard (2007)
- Flow-based, slow speed, sequential order
- Low-cost: Point-of-Care diagnosis test,
especially for resource limited people
Flow by capillary wicking
Active paper open chip (APoC):
- Control by applying electric field
- No pump, pipe and pressurizer
- Drop-based, fast speed, randomly order
- Drop movement on paper
APoC, K. Shin in Sogang univ. (2013)
Digital drops actuated by electric field
Paper microfluidic chips
Properties Applications