Thin film microfluidic systems facility

该项目旨在建立一个以薄膜微流体为中心的主要研究设施。参与单位已研制出涡旋流控装置作为新型微流控平台，并需要关键设备，以建立一个独特的世界领先的设施。最近开发的可扩展和连续流动的涡旋流体装置有越来越多的应用，其专利涵盖了蛋白质折叠，纳米碳处理，增强酶反应，脂质体制造和操作，荧光聚合物和生物柴油生成等领域。该设备将进一步发展将现场效应和新型实时监测纳入快速优化处理的技术。它将增强在能源生产、控制化学反应性和选择性、蛋白质折叠和纯化、增强酶促反应、药物输送和材料加工等领域的各种应用。

This project aims to establish a major research facility centred on thin film microfluidics. The participating organisations have developed the vortex fluidic device as a novel microfluidic platform, and key equipment is required to establish a unique world-leading facility. The recently developed, scalable and continuous-flow vortex fluidic device has a growing number of applications, with patents covering areas such as protein folding, nano-carbon processing, enhancing enzymatic reactions, liposome fabrication and manipulation, fluorescent polymers and biodiesel generation. The equipment will further develop the technology for incorporating field effects and novel real-time monitoring into the processing for rapid optimisation. It will enhance a diverse variety of applications in areas including energy production, controlling chemical reactivity and selectivity, protein folding and purification, enhancing enzymatic reactions and drug delivery and materials processing.