時間：12月15日(星期三) 下午1:30起
地點：工程一館302室

Abstract

Paper Diagnostic Systems

Developing a method to answer scientific questions is one of the practical approaches for doing science; optical microscopy, for example, has been a fundamental method of biological or medical discovery for more than three centuries. However, building a system or tool to solve current issues existed in the world (e.g., infectious diseases) is also one of the exciting projects that we can involve and contribute.

The developing world needs diagnostic devices that have the lowest cost, function without supporting equipment (e.g., electricity, pumps, optics), can be integrated with wireless communication technology for telemedicine, and are portable and easy to operate. Due to this rational reason, for last few years, we have developed multiple “simple” technologies, which can be used in the developing world. I will talk about multiple interesting projects on which we are working in the Whitesides Research Group, including 3-D paper-based microfluidics, paper-based ELISA for HIV detection as well as paper-based portable device for biochemical analysis.