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Finger-Powered Electro-Digital-Microfluidics
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DOI：10.1007/978-1-4939-6911-1_20.png)
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Portable microfluidic devices are promising for point-of-care (POC) diagnosis and bio-and environmental surveillance in resource-constrained or non-laboratory environments. Lateral-flow devices, some built off paper or strings, have been widely developed but the fixed layouts of their underlying wicking/micro-channel structures limit their flexibility and present challenges in implementing multistep reactions. Digital microfluidics can circumvent these difficulties by addressing discrete droplets individually. Existing approaches to digital microfluidics, however, often require bulky power supplies/batteries and high voltage circuits. We present a scheme to drive digital microfluidic devices by converting mechanical energy of human fingers to electrical energy using an array of piezoelectric elements. We describe the integration our scheme into two promising digital microfluidics platforms: one based on the electro-wetting-on-dielectric (EWOD) phenomenon and the other on the electrophoretic control of droplet (EPD). Basic operations of droplet manipulations, such as droplet transport, merging and splitting, are demonstrated using the finger-powered digital-microfluidics.
Keywords:
Finger-powered microfluidics
Portable microfluidics
Electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD)
Electrophoretic control of droplet (EPD)
Piezoelectric energy conversion
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