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LAB ON A CHIP
Volume 10, Issue 11, Pages 1485-1490Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b923214a
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- NIH [CA119402, EB005743]
- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [R01CA119402] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOENGINEERING [R01EB005743] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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In this paper, we report a novel method for fabricating ion-selective membranes in poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS)/glass-based microfluidic preconcentrators. Based on the concept of capillary valves, this fabrication method involves filling a lithographically patterned junction between two microchannels with an ion-selective material such as Nafion resin; subsequent curing results in a high aspect-ratio membrane for use in electrokinetic sample preconcentration. To demonstrate the concentration performance of this high-aspect-ratio, ion-selective membrane, we integrated the preconcentrator with a surface-based immunoassay for R-Phycoerythrin (RPE). Using a 1 x PBS buffer system, the preconcentrator-enhanced immunoassay showed an approximately 100 x improvement in sensitivity within 30 min. This is the first time that an electrokinetic microfluidic preconcentrator based on ion concentration polarization (ICP) has been used in high ionic strength buffer solutions to enhance the sensitivity of a surface-based immunoassay.
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