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  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Biomedical Engineering

Background:

  • There is a significant demand for affordable, point-of-use sensors for detecting disease biomarkers and environmental contaminants in water.
  • Smart polymer hydrogels offer versatile recognition capabilities for various analytes but are often limited by slow response times.
  • Existing microfluidic sensors can be expensive and complex, hindering widespread adoption for real-time monitoring.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a fabrication process for low-cost, rapid-response hydrogel-based microfluidic sensors for point-of-use applications.
  • To demonstrate a method for creating hydrogel pillars within microfluidic channels using mask-templated UV photopolymerization.
  • To enable electrical transduction of hydrogel swelling/shrinking for analyte detection.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized mask-templated UV photopolymerization to fabricate arrays of smart hydrogel pillars within sub-millimeter microfluidic channels.
  • Engineered hydrogel pillars with high surface area-to-volume ratios to accelerate response times.
  • Employed resistance measurements across microfluidic channels to detect changes in ionic current flow caused by hydrogel volume alterations.

Main Results:

  • Successfully manufactured low-cost hydrogel-based microfluidic sensors with significantly reduced response times.
  • Demonstrated that hydrogel swelling or shrinking directly correlates with changes in microfluidic channel resistance.
  • Validated the system's functionality using a portable potentiostat compatible with smartphones or laptops for point-of-use operation.

Conclusions:

  • The developed fabrication process enables the creation of inexpensive, rapid-response hydrogel microfluidic sensors suitable for point-of-use monitoring.
  • The sensor design effectively transduces hydrogel volume changes into measurable electrical signals, facilitating analyte detection.
  • This technology holds promise for accessible water quality monitoring and disease biomarker detection in various settings.