• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.302-307
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• 2017

This paper presents a paper-based concentration gradient chip to analyze colorimetric glucose assay. The paper-based concentration gradient chip was fabricated through a wax patterning technique that can design the fluidic channel by selectively printing hydrophobic and hydrophilic areas. Afterwards, glucose and dilution solutions were loaded into the inlet of a concentration gradient chip and each solution was then mixed sequentially at mixing channel. Finally, concentration gradient was formed at each outlet of the chip. To measure the glucose concentration of the solution in outlets, we conducted colorimetric glucose assay with fixed concentration of glucose solution (0, 5, 10, 15 and 20 mM) and obtained normalized intensity. Subsequently, glucose concentrations of the outlets were calculated by substituting the normalized intensity to linear regression function based on the normalized intensity of fixed glucose concentration. Finally, the concentration gradient of glucose was formed on the chip with the result of colorimetric assay. The concentration gradient paper chip has the potential to accurately analyze unknown glucose concentration.

• 대한기계학회논문집 C: 기술과 교육
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.217-223
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• 2015

유체채널 내에서의 미세입자의 패터닝은 생물 및 의료 응용분야에서 활용될 가치가 높은 응용 기술이다. 본 연구는 미세유체 채널 내에서 구조물 없이 외부 자석의 배열만을 이용한 미세입자 패터닝 방법을 제안한다. 자석의 같은 극과 서로 다른 극끼리의 배열을 이용한 일렬 배열, 적층 배열 등을 고안하여, 다양한 미세입자 패터닝에 실험적으로 적용하였다. 서로 같은 극끼리의 배열은 입자 포획에 쉽게 적용 가능하여, 독립적 배열이 가능하였다. 특히 적층 배열은 다양한 패터닝을 할 수 있음을 확인할 수 있었다. 자기력 1.08mT 수준에서까지 자석 배열에 의한 일정한 패턴을 관찰할 수 있었고, 패터닝된 입자들은 20 ml/hr 의 유체 속도에서도 안정하게 유지되었다. 본 연구는 간단하면서도 자성 입자의 다양한 패터닝을 가능케 하는 방법으로 면역자기성 입자를 이용한 의학/바이오 분야로의 폭넓은 응용을 기대케 한다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2012년도 제43회 하계 정기 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.411-411
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• 2012

Over the recent years, surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has dramatically grown as a label-free detecting technique with the high level of selectivity and sensitivity. Conventional SERS-active nanostructured layers have been deposited or patterned on rigid substrates such as silicon wafers and glass slides. Such devices fabricated on a flexible platform may offer additional functionalities and potential applications. For example, flexible SERS-active substrates can be integrated into microfluidic diagnostic devices with round-shaped micro-channel, which has large surface area compared to the area of flat SERS-active substrates so that we may anticipate high sensitivity in a conformable device form. We demonstrate fabrication of flexible SERS-active nanostructured substrates based on soft-lithography for simple, low-cost processing. The SERS-active nanostructured substrates are fabricated using conventional Si fabrication process and inkjet printing methods. A Si mold is patterned by photolithography with an average height of 700 nm and an average pitch of 200 nm. Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), a mixture of Sylgard 184 elastomer and curing agnet (wt/wt = 10:1), is poured onto the mold that is coated with trichlorosilane for separating the PDMS easily from the mold. Then, the nano-pattern is transferred to the thin PDMS substrates. The soft lithographic methods enable the SERS-active nanostructured substrates to be repeatedly replicated. Silver layer is physically deposited on the PDMS. Then, gold nanoparticle (AuNP) inks are applied on the nanostructured PDMS using inkjet printer (Dimatix DMP 2831) to deposit AuNPs on the substrates. The characteristics of SERS-active substrates are measured; topology is provided by atomic force microscope (AFM, Park Systems XE-100) and Raman spectra are collected by Raman spectroscopy (Horiba LabRAM ARAMIS Spectrometer). We anticipate that the results may open up various possibilities of applying flexible platform to highly sensitive Raman detection.

• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.309-314
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• 2005

We performed a basic experiment for the rapid, on-line, real-time measurement of hepatitis B surface antigen using a surface plasmon resonance biosensor. We immobilized anti­HBsAg (hepatitis B surface antigen) polyclonal antibody, as a ligand, to the dextran layer on a CM5 chip surface that had previously been activated by N-hydroxysuccinimide. A sample solution containing HBsAg was fed through a microfluidic channel, and the reflecting angle change due to the mass increase from the binding was detected. The binding characteristics between HBsAg and its polyclonal antibody followed the typical monolayer adsorption isotherm. When the entire immobilized antibody had interacted, no additional, non-specific binding occurred, suggesting the immunoreaction was very specific. The bound antigen per unit mass of the antibody was independent of the immobilized ligand density. No significant steric hindrance was observed at an immobilization density of approximately $17.6 ng/mm^2$. The relationship between the HBsAg concentration in the sample solution and the antigen bound to the ligand was linear up to ca. $40{\mu}g$/mL. This linearity was much higher than that of the ELISA method. It appeared the anti­gen-antibody binding increased as the immobilized ligand density increased. In summary, this study showed the potential of this SPR biosensor-based method as a rapid, simple and multi­sample on-line assay. Once properly validated, it may serve as a more efficient method for HBsAg quantification for replacing the ELISA.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.81-86
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• 2021

화장품 산업은 정밀화학분야로 기술집약적인 산업이며 세계적으로 지속적인 성장률을 보이고 있다. 이러한 화장품 산업에서 시장 점유율을 높이기 위해 과거에는 기능적 측면이 주로 강조가 되어 왔으나, 최근에는 국내외적으로 화장품의 우수한 성능과 더불어 시각적 효과로 소비자의 관심을 유도하려는 노력이 고조되고 있다. 이에 따라 화장품 제조업체에서는 화장품 에멀젼을 캡슐화하고 에멀젼 캡슐의 형태, 색상 및 질감 등을 다양하게 변형시킬 수 있는 기술을 다방면으로 시도하고 있는 상황이다. 에멀젼을 캡슐화하는 기본 방식은 에멀젼 저장소에 에멀젼을 채워 넣고 노즐을 통해 에멀젼을 낙하시키는 방법으로 업체에서 가장 쉽게 이용할 수 있다. 그러나, 에멀젼을 캡슐레이션하는 기존 방식은 캡슐의 사이즈를 줄이는 데 한계가 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 기존 방식의 한계를 이론 및 수치해석방법으로 고찰하였으며, 이러한 방식의 문제를 해결하기 위한 대안책으로 미세유체역학(Microfluidics)을 적용하기 위하여 마이크로 채널 내에서 발생하는 에멀젼 캡슐레이션 현상을 연구하였다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2013년도 제45회 하계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.273-273
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• 2013

Recently, Point-of-care (POC) testing microdevices enable to do the patient monitoring, drug screening, pathogen detection in the outside of hospital. Immunochromatographic strip (ICS) is one of the diagnostic technologies which are widely applied to POC detection. Relatively low cost, simplicity to use, easy interpretations of the diagnostic results and high stability under any circumstances are representative advantages of POC diagnosis. It would provide colorimetric results more conveniently, if the genetic analysis microsystem incorporates the ICS as a detector part. In this work, we develop a reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) microfluidic device integrated with a ROSGENE strip for colorimetric influenza H1N1 virus detection. The integrated RT-PCR- ROSGENE device is consist of four functional units which are a pneumatic micropump for sample loading, 2 ${\mu}L$ volume RT-PCR chamber for target gene amplification, a resistance temperature detector (RTD) electrode for temperature control, and a ROSGENE strip for target gene detection. The device was fabricated by combining four layers: First wafer is for RTD microfabrication, the second wafer is for PCR chamber at the bottom and micropump channel on the top, the third is the monolithic PDMS, and the fourth is the manifold for micropump operation. The RT-PCR was performed with subtype specific forward and reverse primers which were labeled with Texas-red, serving as a fluorescent hapten. A biotin-dUTP was used to insert biotin moieties in the PCR amplicons, during the RT-PCR. The RT-PCR amplicons were loaded in the sample application area, and they were conjugated with Au NP-labeled hapten-antibody. The test band embedded with streptavidins captures the biotin labeled amplicons and we can see violet colorimetric signals if the target gene was amplified with the control line. The off-chip RT-PCR amplicons of the influenza H1N1 virus were analyzed with a ROSGENE strip in comparison with an agarose gel electrophoresis. The intensities of test line was proportional to the template quantity and the detection sensitivity of the strip was better than that of the agarose gel. The test band of the ROSGENE strip could be observed with only 10 copies of a RNA template by the naked eyes. For the on-chip RT-PCR-ROSGENE experiments, a RT-PCR cocktail was injected into the chamber from the inlet reservoir to the waste outlet by the micro-pump actuation. After filling without bubbles inside the chamber, a RT-PCR thermal cycling was executed for 2 hours with all the microvalves closed to isolate the PCR chamber. After thermal cycling, the RT-PCR product was delivered to the attached ROSGENE strip through the outlet reservoir. After dropping 40 ${\mu}L$ of an eluant buffer at the end of the strip, the violet test line was detected as a H1N1 virus indicator, while the negative experiment only revealed a control line and while the positive experiment a control and a test line was appeared.

• 청정기술
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.323-330
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• 2022

미세유체 종이-기반 분석 장치는 최근 현장 진단 및 환경 물질 감지를 포함한 다양한 적용가능성으로 주목을 받고 있다. 본 연구는 적은 비용과 간단한 검출 방법으로 중금속을 빠르게 검출할 수 있는 3D-μPAD를 제작하기 위해 PDMS 양면 인쇄 방법을 제안하였다. 3D-μPAD 디자인은 레이저 커팅으로 아크릴 스탬프에 적용할 수 있으며, 제작된 스탬프에 PDMS 고분자를 스핀 코팅 후 양면접촉인쇄 방식 도입을 통해 3차원 형태의 소수성 장벽 형성에 필요한 조건을 확인하였다. 구체적으로 소수성 장벽 형성 조건인 고분자 농도, 스핀 코팅 속도 및 접촉 시간에 따라 PDMS 소수성 장벽 면적과 친수성 채널의 면적 변화를 분석함으로써 3D-μPAD 제작 공정 조건 최적화를 수행하였다. 최적화된 μPAD로 니켈, 구리, 수은 이온, pH를 다양한 농도에서 검출하였고 이를 ImageJ 프로그램으로 분석하여 grayscale 값으로 정량화 하였다. 이를 통해 3D-μPAD를 제작함으로써 특별한 분석 기기 없이 다양한 중금속 비색 검출을 수행함으로써 조기진단 바이오 센서로의 응용 가능성을 증명하였다. 이 3D-μPAD는 휴대가 간편한 다중 금속이온 검출 바이오센서로서, 신속한 현장 모니터링이 가능하므로 개발도상국 같은 자원이 제한된 지역에서 유용하게 사용 가능하다.