Tavakolidakhrabadi, Amirmahdi; Stark, Matt; Bacher, Ulrike; Legros, Myriam; Bessire, Cedric (2024). Optimization of Microfluidics for Point-of-Care Blood Sensing. Biosensors, 14(6) MDPI 10.3390/bios14060266
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Blood tests are widely used in modern medicine to diagnose certain illnesses and evaluate the overall health of a patient. To enable testing in resource-limited areas, there has been increasing interest in point-of-care (PoC) testing devices. To process blood samples, liquid mixing with active pumps is usually required, making PoC blood testing expensive and bulky. We explored the possibility of processing approximately 2 μL of whole blood for image flow cytometry using capillary structures that allowed test times of a few minutes without active pumps. Capillary pump structures with five different pillar shapes were simulated using Ansys Fluent to determine which resulted in the fastest whole blood uptake. The simulation results showed a strong influence of the capillary pump pillar shape on the chip filling time. Long and thin structures with a high aspect ratio exhibited faster filling times. Microfluidic chips using the simulated pump design with the most efficient blood uptake were fabricated with polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and polyethylene oxide (PEO). The chip filling times were tested with 2 μL of both water and whole blood, resulting in uptake times of 24 s for water and 111 s for blood. The simulated blood plasma results deviated from the experimental filling times by about 35% without accounting for any cell-induced effects. By comparing the flow speed induced by different pump pillar geometries, this study offers insights for the design and optimization of passive microfluidic devices for inhomogenous liquids such as whole blood in sensing applications.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Haematology, Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Laboratory Medicine and Hospital Pharmacy (DOLS) > Clinic of Haematology and Central Haematological Laboratory |
UniBE Contributor: |
Bacher, Vera Ulrike, Legros, Myriam |
Subjects: |
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health |
ISSN: |
2079-6374 |
Publisher: |
MDPI |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Pubmed Import |
Date Deposited: |
27 Jun 2024 09:58 |
Last Modified: |
27 Jun 2024 10:06 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.3390/bios14060266 |
PubMed ID: |
38920570 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
biomedical sensors capillary-driven systems computational modeling lab-on-a-chip devices microfluidics microscale fluid transport point-of-care blood sensing |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/198149 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/198149 |
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