Fisher Team Update, June 2015
Hi all, a quick update in case you want to know what we are up too. This summer it will be just me at the McGrath lab; the main goal is to produce some preliminary data with an eye on submitting an NSF grant in the fall. The topic is nano-biosensing, using Henry’s shear-free devices. I have some experience with using cells of the immune system to detect toxins, as wells as with immunoassays, and it would be great if we can leverage the two kinds of expertise to generate a new application for the existing or modified chip.
In the meantime, I leave you with a couple of figures relating to a topic near to my heart: Cheap, thin, flexible microfluidic devices we designed and call PETLs. Happy to talk to anyone that finds them interesting : ) ADDED: The Whitesides-group paper that uses paper 😉
Can you update this post with a link to the paper you were trying to mimic with the design. Their design gets mixing but yours does not.
RE:super-laminar flow and vortices, it occurred to me that another way to try to induce mixing would be to physically score (scratch in orderly fashion) the bottom of the channel (bottom PET layer) to create grooves that may encourage “advection” : )