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Rapid prototyping of paper‐based microfluidics with wax for low‐cost, portable bioassay

2009; Wiley; Volume: 30; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/elps.200800563

1522-2683

Yao Lu, Weiwei Shi, Lei Jiang, Jianhua Qin, Bingcheng Lin,

Advanced Biosensing Techniques and Applications

Abstract Here we present a simple and low‐cost production method to generate paper‐based microfluidic devices with wax for portable bioassay. The wax patterning method we introduced here included three different ways: (i) painting with a wax pen, (ii) printing with an inkjet printer followed by painting with a wax pen, (iii) printing by a wax printer directly. The whole process was easy to operate and could be finished within 5–10 min without the use of a clean room, UV lamp, organic solvent, etc . Horse radish peroxidase, BSA and glucose assays were conducted to verify the performance of wax‐patterned paper.