Developement of valve-integrated nanofluidic preconcentrator for low-abundance protein detection
Journal
22nd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2018
Journal Volume
2
Pages
853-856
Date Issued
2018
Author(s)
Abstract
In this study, we developed a new immunosensor that can achieve ultra-low detection limit and high sensitivity. This new device has an electrokinetic trapping (EKT)-based nanofluidic preconcentrator, which was integrated with oscillating bubble valves, to trap concentrated antigen and immunobeads. During the immunoassay process, oscillating bubbles rapidly grew and acted as control valves and to block the microchannel. Thereafter, the trapped preconcentrated antigen plug and antibody-coated nanobeads were preserved in the region between these two valves. Finally, the antigen concentration was quantitatively analyzed by a real-time measurement of Brownian diffusion of the immuno-beads. In this work, the test sample used was C-reactive protein (CRP) which is a risk indicator of coronary heart dis-ease and atherosclerosis. Copyright ? (2018) by Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society. All rights reserved.
Subjects
Antigens; Nanofluidics; Electrokinetic trapping; Formatting; Layout; Low detection limit; Low-abundance proteins; Manuscript; PDF files; Real time measurements; Proteins
Type
conference paper