Disposable polymer 'smart' lab-on-a-chip for point-of-care testing (POCT) in clinical diagnostics

摘要

The recent development of an innovative disposable polymer smart lab-on-a-chip, which includes smart passive microfluidics, embedded on-chip power sources, and integrated biosensor array, has opened a new era for the point-of-care testing in clinical diagnostics. Several challenging issues in the development of the disposable polymer smart lab-on-a-chip have been explored and addressed in this work. A new disposable polymer "smart" lab-on-a-chip developed for measuring metabolic parameters from whole blood is presented in this paper.