Lab-on-a chip sensor

NeSSI s driver is to simplify and standardize sample system design. There is also a huge opportunity to adapt the emerging class of lab-on-a-chip sensors to a miniature/modular smart manifold which could fundamentally change the way in which industry does process analysis. 

These electromagnetic waves are very sensitive to any change in the boundary—for example, to the adsorption of molecules onto the metal surface. SPR has measured the absorption of material onto planar metal surfaces (typically Au, Ag, Cu, Ti, or Cr) or onto metal nanoparticles and is used in many color-based biosensor applications and lab-on-a-chip sensors. To observe SPR, the complex dielectric constants e1 of the metal and s2 of the dielectric (glass or air) must satisfy the conditions Re(ei) < 0 and > e21,... 

Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) is a method for measuring adsorption of materials onto planar (frequently gold or silver) surfaces or to the surface of metal nanoparticles. Surface plasmon resonance is observed when the frequency of photons matches the frequency of oscillation of the bound metal electrons. SPR can be used in a number of colour-based biosensor applications as well as lab-on-a chip sensors. SPR has been used to follow the rate of release of DNA III polymerase holo-enzyme following gap filling between Ozaki fragments where it was... 

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Recent developments in microsystems technology have led to the widespread application of microfabrication techniques for the production of sensor platforms. These techniques have had a major impact on the development of so-called Lab-on-a-Chip devices. The major application areas for theses devices are biomedical diagnostics, industrial process monitoring, environmental monitoring, drug discovery, and defence. In the context of biomedical diagnostic applications, for example, such devices are intended to provide quantitative chemical or biochemical information on samples such as blood, sweat and saliva while using minimal sample volume. 

Challenges remain in the development of lab-on-a-chip sensing systems. The overall lifetime of a sensor chip is always determined by the sensor with the shortest lifetime, which in most cases is the depletion of reference electrolytes. Measures to minimize cross-talking among sensors, especially when biosensors are integrated in the system, also should be implemented [122], The development of compatible deposition methods of various polymeric membranes on the same chip is another key step in the realization of multisensing devices. 

By incorporating on-chip electronics or using external analyzers with advanced control and signal processing functions, the lab-on-a-chip or yuTAS can act as smart sensors ,... 

In parallel with improvements in chemical sensor performance, analytical science has also seen tremendous advances in the development of compact, portable analytical instruments. For example, lab-on-a-chip (LOAC) devices enable complex bench processes (sampling, reagent addition, temperature control, analysis of reaction products) to be incorporated into a compact, device format that can provide reliable analytical information within a controlled internal environment. LOAC devices typically incorporate pumps, valves, micromachined flow manifolds, reagents, sampling system, electronics and data processing, and communications. Clearly, they are much more complex than the simple chemo-sensor described above. In fact, chemosensors can be incorporated into LOAC devices as a selective sensor, which enables the sensor to be contained within the protective internal environment. Figure 5... 

In the last case, the use of standard silicon microelectronics technology allow the possibility for integration of optical, fluidics and electrical functions on a single optical sensing circuit leading to a complete lab-on-a-chip technological solution. With this sensor a detection limit in the femtomole range is achievable in a direct format. 

Chapter 13, Lab-on-a-Chip Detection of Explosives, describes one particular technology that has been successfully developed in a very small size. It too thus becomes representative of the possibilities that are offered by sensor systems of this genre. 

A series of papers have concerned the incorporation of various sensors into lab-on-a-chip devices with, for example, conductivity measurements being combined with poly(methyl methacrylate) microfluidic devices to analyse mixtures of mono- and polyanionic molecules such as proteins [148]. 

Significant advances have occurred during the past decade to miniaturize the size of the measurement system in order to make online analysis economically feasible and to reduce the time delays that often are present in analyzers. Recently, chemical sensors have been placed on microchips, even those requiring multiple physical, chemical, and biochemical steps (such as electrophoresis) in the analysis. This device has been called lab-on-a-chip. The measurements of chemical composition can be direct or indirect, the latter case referring to applications where some property of the process stream is measured (such as refractive index) and then related to composition of a particular component. 

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