Digital microfluidic chip for rapid portable detection of mercury(II)

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2820-2824

  Gao, Anran ^a   Liu, Xiang ^a   Li, Tie ^a   Zhou, Ping ^a   Wang, Yuelin ^a   Yang, Qing ^b   Wang, Lihua ^b   Fan, Chunhai ^b  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Digital microfludic chip; mercury ion; mercury specific oligonucleotide (MSO); water soluble conjugated polymer

Indexed keywords

DETECTION SYSTEM; DIGITAL MICROFLUIDICS; LABEL FREE; MERCURY ION; MERCURY-SPECIFIC OLIGONUCLEOTIDE (MSO); MICROFLUDIC CHIPS; MICROFLUIDIC CHIP; NAKED-EYE; VISUAL DETECTION; WATER-SOLUBLE CONJUGATED POLYMERS;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS; DROPS; ELECTROSTATICS; FLUIDIC DEVICES; IONS; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; MICROFLUIDICS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; THIOPHENE;

DETECTORS;

EID: 80054880068     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2011.2170969     Document Type: Article

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