Life-Saving Threads: Advances in Textile-Based Analytical Devices

Authors

Syamak Farajikhah, University of WollongongFollow
Joan M. Cabot, University of Tasmania
Peter C. Innis, University of WollongongFollow
Brett Paull, University of Tasmania
Gordon G. Wallace, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

133738

Publication Details

Farajikhah, S., Cabot, J. M., Innis, P. C., Paull, B. & Wallace, G. (2019). Life-Saving Threads: Advances in Textile-Based Analytical Devices. ACS Combinatorial Science, 21 229-240.

Abstract

Novel approaches that incorporate electrofluidic and microfluidic technologies are reviewed to illustrate the translation of traditional enclosed structures into open and accessible textile based platforms. Through the utilization of on-fiber and on-textile microfluidics, it is possible to invert the typical enclosed capillary column or microfluidic "chip" platform, to achieve surface accessible efficient separations and fluid handling, while maintaining a microfluidic environment. The open fiber/textile based fluidics approach immediately provides new possibilities to interrogate, manipulate, redirect, extract, characterize, and quantify solutes and target species at any point in time during such processes as on-fiber electrodriven separations. This approach is revolutionary in its simplicity and provides many potential advantages not otherwise afforded by the more traditional enclosed platforms.

Grant Number

ARC/CE140100012