Evaluation of disposable microfluidic chip design for automated and fast Immunoassays

Abstract

We report here, the design and development of a disposable immunoassay chip for protein biomarker detection within ∼1 h. The unique design allows for real-time dynamic calibration of immunoassay for multiple biomarker detections on the chip. The limit of detection achieved for this test chip is 10 pg/ml for IL6, and 50 pg/ml for GFAP with a detection time of 1 h. The prototype instrument used for flowing the reagents through the chip can be easily assembled from off-the-shelf components with the final chemiluminescent detection carried out in a commercial plate reader. Optimization of different aspects of chip design, fabrication, and assay development is discussed in detail.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2017
Source ID
10.1063/1.4977198

Entities

People

  • Bradley Ledden
  • Champak Das
  • Chien Nguyen
  • Guochun Wang
  • Qian Sun
  • Sai Kumar

Organizations

  • United States Department of Defense

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Chemistry

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