TY - JOUR
T1 - Microfluidic devices with gold thin film channels for chemical and biomedical applications
T2 - a review
AU - Toudeshkchoui, Mahtab Ghasemi
AU - Rabiee, Navid
AU - Rabiee, Mohammad
AU - Bagherzadeh, Mojtaba
AU - Tahriri, Mohammadreza
AU - Tayebi, Lobat
AU - Hamblin, Michael R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2019/12/1
Y1 - 2019/12/1
N2 - Microfluidic systems (MFS) provide a range of advantages in biomedical applications, including improved controllability of material characteristics and lower consumption of reagents, energy, time and money. Fabrication of MFS employs various materials, such as glass, silicon, ceramics, paper, and metals such as gold, copper, aluminum, chromium and titanium. In this review, gold thin film microfluidic channels (GTFMFC) are discussed with reference to fabrication methods and their diverse use in chemical and biomedical applications. The advantages of gold thin films (GTF) include flexibility, ease of manufacture, adhesion to polymer surfaces, chemical stability, good electrical conductivity, surface plasmon resonance effects, ability to be chemically functionalized, etc. Various electroactuators and electroanalytical devices can incorporate GTF. GTF-based MFS have been used in environmental monitoring, assays of biomarkers, immunoassays, cell culture studies and pathogen identification.
AB - Microfluidic systems (MFS) provide a range of advantages in biomedical applications, including improved controllability of material characteristics and lower consumption of reagents, energy, time and money. Fabrication of MFS employs various materials, such as glass, silicon, ceramics, paper, and metals such as gold, copper, aluminum, chromium and titanium. In this review, gold thin film microfluidic channels (GTFMFC) are discussed with reference to fabrication methods and their diverse use in chemical and biomedical applications. The advantages of gold thin films (GTF) include flexibility, ease of manufacture, adhesion to polymer surfaces, chemical stability, good electrical conductivity, surface plasmon resonance effects, ability to be chemically functionalized, etc. Various electroactuators and electroanalytical devices can incorporate GTF. GTF-based MFS have been used in environmental monitoring, assays of biomarkers, immunoassays, cell culture studies and pathogen identification.
KW - Biomedical applications
KW - Electrochemical sensors
KW - Gold thin film channels
KW - Microfluidic systems
KW - Surface plasmonic resonance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074353226&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10544-019-0439-0
DO - 10.1007/s10544-019-0439-0
M3 - Article
C2 - 31686232
AN - SCOPUS:85074353226
SN - 1387-2176
VL - 21
JO - Biomedical Microdevices
JF - Biomedical Microdevices
IS - 4
M1 - 93
ER -