Direct spraying method for fabrication of paper-based microfluidic devices

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Liu, N
Xu, J
An, HJ
Phan, DT
Hashimoto, M
Lew, WS
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2017
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Direct spraying of hydrophobic materials is an affordable, easy-to-use and equipment-free method for fabrication of flexible microsensors, albeit not yet widely adopted. To explore its application potential, in this paper, we propose and demonstrate two novel hybrid methods to fabricate paper-based components. Firstly, through combing direct spraying with Parafilm embedding, a leak-free paper-based sample preconcentrator for fluorescence sensing was fabricated. The leak-free device worked on the principle of ion concentration polarization (ICP) effect, and achieved enhancement of fluorescent tracer by 220 folds on a paper substrate. Secondly, by using the sprayed hydrophobic patterns, paper-based microsized supercapacitors (mSCs) were fabricated. Vacuum filtration was used to deposit multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNT)-dispersed solution on a porous substrate to form electrodes. A volumetric capacitance of 42.5 mF cm-3 at a current density of 2 mA cm-3 was obtained on the paper-based mSC. Our demonstrations have shown the versatility of direct spraying for the fabrication of integrative paper-based microfluidic devices.

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Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering
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Liu, N; Xu, J; An, HJ; Phan, DT; Hashimoto, M; Lew, WS, Direct spraying method for fabrication of paper-based microfluidic devices, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 2017, 27 (10), pp. 104001: 1-104001: 10
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