Development of plug and play microfluidic system

即插即用微流控系统的开发

• 批准号: 720180
• 金额: $ 15.61万
• 依托单位: DOLOMITE CENTRE LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: GRD Development of Prototype
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=720180
• 关键词: Development; plug; play; microfluidic; system

The aim of this project is to prototype a suite of integrated productivity enhancement tools inthe exciting and rapidly growing area of research known as microfluidics. Microfluidics lies atthe interface between engineering, chemistry, physics and biology and offers radical solutionsto many of the key social and environmental issues of our time, by enabling miniaturisation offluid handling (a tap drip is thousands of times larger than a typical microfluidic system).Application areas are as diverse as food science, pharma and petro-chemical. “Lab-on-a-chip”developments aim to personalise medicine at the point of care: one drop of blood can beanalysed for thousands of issues within minutes and a tailored drug manufactured on-demand.Dolomite is an open-access solutions provider in microfluidics, providing standard productsand specialised consultancy to help scientists meet the challenges they face in their dailyresearch. We believe that a scientist should be free to focus on science, and not have to worryabout finding the right tools for the job and spending time making them work the way theyneed.This project will move our products to the next level. By developing a suite of interconnectedmicrofluidic products which provide a sophisticated set of intelligently co-ordinatedcapabilities, setup and re-configuration can be minimised whilst maximising flexibility andanalysis.In brief, the core of the proposed suite will be a modern Android-based touch-screen interfacegiving immediate visualisation of data and reconfiguration of the connected hardware– wecall it “FlowAce”. This will be supported by a series of hardware modules and sensors, whichinterconnect to the tiny pipes and devices used in microfluidics through a novel set of robustconnectors – we call them “Multiflux”. To ensure compatibility with traditional methods,there will also be a novel “batch to flow” module for taking microscopic samples of fluids andputting them into flow channels.

该项目的目的是在被称为微流体的令人兴奋和快速增长的研究领域中，制作一套集成的生产率提高工具的原型。微流体位于工程、化学、物理和生物学之间，通过实现流体处理的微型化(水龙头滴头比典型的微流体系统大数千倍)，为我们这个时代的许多关键社会和环境问题提供了根本性的解决方案。应用领域广泛，如食品科学、制药和石化。“芯片实验室”的发展目标是在护理点个性化药物：一滴血可以在几分钟内分析数千个问题，并按需制造定制药物。白云石是微流体领域的开放访问解决方案提供商，提供标准产品和专业咨询，帮助科学家应对他们在日常研究中面临的挑战。我们相信，科学家应该自由地专注于科学，而不必担心为这项工作找到合适的工具，并花费时间让它们以他们需要的方式工作。这个项目将把我们的产品推向一个新的水平。通过开发一套相互连接的微流体产品，提供一套复杂的智能协调功能，可以最大限度地减少设置和重新配置，同时最大限度地提高灵活性和分析能力。简而言之，拟议的套件的核心将是基于Android的现代触摸屏界面，提供即时的数据可视化和连接硬件的重新配置-我们称之为“FlowAce”。这将得到一系列硬件模块和传感器的支持，这些模块和传感器通过一组新颖的坚固连接器与微流体中使用的微小管道和设备互连-我们称它们为“多流量”。为了确保与传统方法的兼容性，还将有一个新的“批量流动”模块，用于采集微观流体样本，并将它们放入流动通道中。