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Título: | Electroactive polymer membranes as substrates for point-of-care devices |
Autor(es): | Brito-Pereira, Ricardo Macedo, A. S. Lanceros-Méndez, S. Cardoso, Vanessa Fernandes |
Palavras-chave: | Point-of-care µPAD P(VDF-TrFE) Electrospinning Phase inversion Wax-printing |
Data: | 2020 |
Resumo(s): | Point-of-care devices (POC) are becoming essential for medical assistance in emergency situations or location with difficult access to medical infrastructures. In this work, innovative microfluidic substrates based on electroactive poly(vinylidene-co-trifluorethylene)-P(VDF-TrFE) with tuned morphologies and adequate physicochemical properties were developed using electrospinning and phase inversion techniques, as alternative to commercially available two-dimensional microfluidic substrates based mainly on cellulose. Their hydrophilicity was tuned using plasma treatments and barriers were implemented using wax printing to fabricate a design able to carry out glucose assays as a proof of concept. |
Tipo: | Artigo em ata de conferência |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/1822/69451 |
ISBN: | 9781733419017 |
Arbitragem científica: | no |
Acesso: | Acesso aberto |
Aparece nas coleções: | CMEMS - Artigos em livros de atas/Papers in proceedings |