Rapid prototyping of polymeric electrophoresis microchips with integrated copper electrodes for contactless conductivity detection
Wendell Karlos Tomazelli Coltro, Jose Alberto Fracassi da Silva, Emanuel Carrilho
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A simple and easy approach to produce polymeric microchips with integrated copper electrodes for capacitively coupled contactless conductivity detection (C4D) is described. Copper electrodes were fabricated using a printed circuit board (PCB) as an inexpensive thin-layer of metal. The electrode...
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A simple and easy approach to produce polymeric microchips with integrated copper electrodes for capacitively coupled contactless conductivity detection (C4D) is described. Copper electrodes were fabricated using a printed circuit board (PCB) as an inexpensive thin-layer of metal. The electrode layout was first drawn and laser printed on a wax paper sheet. The toner layer deposited on the paper sheet was thermally transferred to the PCB surface working as a mask for wet chemical etching of the copper layer. After the etching step, the toner was removed with an acetonitrile-dampened cotton. A poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) film coated with a thin thermo-sensitive adhesive layer was used to laminate the PCB plate providing an insulator layer of the electrodes to perform C4D measurements. Electrophoresis microchannels were fabricated in poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) by soft lithography and reversibly sealed against the PET film. These hybrid PDMS/PET chips exhibited a stable electroosmotic mobility of 4.25 ± 0.04 × 10−4 V cm−2 s−1, at pH 6.1, over fifty runs. Efficiencies ranging from 1127 to 1690 theoretical plates were obtained for inorganic cations
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Rapid prototyping of polymeric electrophoresis microchips with integrated copper electrodes for contactless conductivity detection
Wendell Karlos Tomazelli Coltro, Jose Alberto Fracassi da Silva, Emanuel Carrilho
Rapid prototyping of polymeric electrophoresis microchips with integrated copper electrodes for contactless conductivity detection
Wendell Karlos Tomazelli Coltro, Jose Alberto Fracassi da Silva, Emanuel Carrilho
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