The centrifugal microfluidic platform has been a focus of academic and industrial research
efforts for almost 40 years. Primarily targeting biomedical applications, a range of assays …

Protein microarray technology has enormous potential for in vitro diagnostics (IVD).
Miniaturized parallelized immunoassays are perfectly suited to generating a maximum of …

There is a critical need for point-of-care (POC) diagnostics in health care and a parallel need
for similar point-of-need (PON) diagnostics in other sectors. Such technology could have a …

The optical pickup unit (OPU) within a CD/DVD/Blu-ray drive integrates 780, 650, and 405
nm wavelength lasers, diffraction-limited optics, a high-bandwidth optoelectronic transducer …

When liquids or solid materials rotate, they impart centrifugal and/or shear forces. This
Review surveys rotary devices and systems in which such forces control small-scale flows …

Centrifugal microfluidics has attracted much interest from academia as well as industry,
since it potentially offers solutions for affordable, user-friendly and portable biosensing. A …

Spinning biodisks have advantages that make them attractive for specialized biochip
applications. The two main classes of spinning biodisks are microfluidic disks and bio …

As a direct, label-free method, Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) detection significantly
reduces the needs for liquid handling and reagent storage compared to common enzyme …

Multiplexed microimmunoassays for five critical compounds were developed using a digital
versatile disk (DVD) as an analytical support and detecting technology. To this end, coating …

The present article gives an overview of the situation of the aquatic ecosystem in respect to
contamination by chemical pollutants and the different multiplexed techniques used to …