Detecting proteins in microfluidic channels decorated with liquid crystal sensing dots

Langmuir

Volumn 28, Issue 50, 2012, Pages 17571-17577

  Aliño, Vera Joanne ^a   Sim, Puay Hoon ^b   Choy, Wan Ting ^b   Fraser, Angus ^b   Yang, Kun Lin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOVINE SERUM ALBUMINS; BUFFER SOLUTIONS; DETECTION METHODS; HIGH FLOW VELOCITY; INKJET PRINTING TECHNOLOGY; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; OPTICAL APPEARANCES; ORIENTATIONAL ORDERINGS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; PROTEIN LABELING; PROTEIN SENSOR; REAL-TIME DETECTION;

FLUIDIC DEVICES; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

PROTEINS;

BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; LIQUID CRYSTAL; METHODOLOGY; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; SERUM ALBUMIN, BOVINE;

EID: 84871291309     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la303213h     Document Type: Article

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