Photoactuated  Ionogel  Microvalves  forWater  Quality  on-­‐Chip  Analysis

Monika  CzugalaDr.  F.  Benito-­‐Lopez,  Prof.  Dermot  Diamond

Dublin  City  University,  Ireland

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Research Objectives• Integration of actuators developed in Task 3.7 into a microfluidic platform:

-biomimetic structures with detectors -fluidic manifolds-integral reagent addition and calibration standards -integral electronics-communications and power generation/storage

• Demonstration of fully functioning analytical platform.

• pH and turbidity - indicate that corrective action and investigation is required before it becomes a potential risk

- associated with outbreaks of Cryptosporidium (Carlow in 2006 and Galway City in 2007)

• nitrite - in public health terms is essential as prolonged exposure can lead to a potential health risk

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Photo-responsive micro-valves• Photoswitchable materials - the use of non-contact, non invasive stimuli.

• Ionogels containing spiropyran moieties with photochromism properties.

• Protonated spiropyran ionogels exhibit a drastic swelling effect.

• Shrinking process of the ionogels happen upon white light irradiation.

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Nitrite detection micro-fluidic device

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Wireless RadioChip Cradle

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Nitrite detection system

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Chip Cradle (in house design)

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Battery

Wireless Radio

Microcontroller board

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Method validation (off chip)

Concentration range of NO2: 0.0 - 1.2

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Method validation (off chip)

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Centrifugal Disc System

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- Low cost single use microfluidic device.

- Multiple samples analysis in a single microfluidic device.

- Multiplexing capabilities (pH, turbidity, nitrite,...).

- Portable system: sample analysis at the point of care.

- Wireless communication system.

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Training & Outreach

• Lab-on-a-Chip European Congress, 27-28 March 2012, Edinburgh, Scotland (POSTER)• 6th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology 2012, which

will be held in June 25-29, Texas, USA (ORAL)• MicroTAS, The 16th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life

Sciences, 31 Oct- 3 Nov 2012, Okinawa, Japan

Anticipated conferences

• MicroTAS, The 15th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, 2-6 Oct 2011, Seattle, USA (ORAL)

• Marie Curie Researchers Symposium, SCIENCE – Passion, Mission, Responsibilities, Polish Presidency of the EU Council 25-27 Sept 2011, Warsaw, Poland (POSTER)

• SPIE-2011, Nanoscience + Engineering, 21 - 25 August, 2011, San Diego, California, USA, (INVITED TALK)

Conferences

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Training & OutreachPublications

• Short course: Lab-on-a-chip technologies for applications in the life sciences, Transducers 2011 Conference,5-9 June 2011, Beijing, China.

• Short course: Microfluidics: Device Science and Technology; Transducers 2011 Conference, 5-9 June 2011, Beijing, China.

• Workshop: “Sensing: Changing the way we live our lives”, DCU, 21 Nov 2011, Dublin, Ireland• Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English English Course

Personal Developement

• The Key to Revolutionary Breakthroughs in Micro-fluidic Devices, Proceedings SPIE 8107, 81070C, 2011; doi:10.1117/12.895330 (REVIEW PAPER)

• Integrating Stimulus-Responsive Materials and Microfluidics – The Key to Next Generation Chemical Sensors, JIMMS (in preparation)

• Novel optical sensing system based on wireless paired emitter detector diode device for Lab-on-a-Disc water quality measurements, Lab Chip (in preparation)

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Acknowledgments

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• Cormac Fay & Damien Maher

• Adaptive Sensors Group, Dublin City University

• Marie Curie Initial Training Network funded by the EC FP7 People Program

• Science Foundation of Ireland under grant 07/CE/I1147

Dr. FernandoBenito-Lopez

Prof. Dermot Diamond

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