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Batik-inspired wax patterning for cloth-based microfluidic device

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conference contribution
posted on 2011-01-01, 00:00 authored by Azadeh Nilghaz, D H B Wicaksono, F A Abdul Majid
This paper describes a new technique of fabricating low-cost and flexible microfluidic device for point of care diagnostics in remote region or developing countries. The technique is inspired from a traditional and ancient textile dye-resist technique, namely batik. In batik technique, wax is used to protect regions of textile material from the colouring dye(s). Similarly, we modify the wax content in cloth for defining hydrophilic channel for controlling fludic flow at micro liter volume level. Separate fluids can be dropped at different sites, and flown into a reaction site for inducing diffusion-induced mixing. As a comparison, we also fabricated cloth microfluidic device using a technique similar to that proposed by previous researchers to build 3-dimensional (3D) paper-based microfluidic device. The device made using our proposed technique can give clearer colour change display due to the mixing of different dyes. Such device could serve as a low-cost analytical device based on colorimetric (colour change) assay. © 2011 IEEE.

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Event

Instrumentation Control and Automation. Conference (2nd : 2011 : Bandung, Indonesia)

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82 - 86

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IEEE

Location

Bandung, Indonesia

Place of publication

Piscataway, N.J.

Start date

2011-11-15

End date

2011-11-17

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9781457714603

Language

eng

Publication classification

E1.1 Full written paper - refereed

Title of proceedings

ICA 2011 : Proceedings of 2011 2nd International Conference on Instrumentation Control and Automation (ICA 2011) : Aula Timur - Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia, November 15·17, 2011.

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