Hybrid analytical microfluidic techniques

这笔赠款涉及开发基于微流控技术的仪器。微流体学是对小体积使用的研究，它提供了用微量的试剂和样品快速进行许多分析的潜力，通常使用廉价的一次性设备。微流控研究通常被称为芯片实验室或微型全分析系统(MicroTAS)，其目标是在单个小型设备上拥有完整或接近完整的分析系统。该提案涉及使用离心式(旋转式)微流控盘。这些磁盘是便携的，非常适合在现场用于环境和医学测试。这项研究涉及开发将样品和化学物质放到磁盘上的全新方法。此外，这些研究涉及开发非常新的方法来构建磁盘并使用它们，以便它们可以用于比当代人所能处理的更复杂的分析。

This grant involves the development of microfluidic based instruments. Microfluidics, the study of the use of small volumes, offers the potential for doing many analyses rapidly with miniscule amounts of reagents and samples, often with inexpensive disposable devices. Microfluidic studies are often referred to as Lab on a Chip or micro Total Analysis Systems (microTAS) with the goal of having a complete or near complete analysis system on a single small device. The proposal involves the use of centrifugal (spinning) microfluidic disks. These disks are portable and well suited to use in the field for environmental and medical tests. The research involves the development of completely new ways to get samples and chemicals onto the disks. In addition, the studies involve developing very new ways of building the disks and using them so that they can be used for more complex analyses than the present generation can handle.