Digital microfluidics: A promising technique for biochemical applications

H Wang, L Chen, L Sun - Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering, 2017 - Springer
Digital microfluidics (DMF) is a versatile microfluidics technology that has significant
application potential in the areas of automation and miniaturization. In DMF, discrete …

High-Performance, Low-Cost, Additively Manufactured Electrospray Ion Sources for Mass Spectrometry

A Kachkine, LF Velásquez-García - Journal of the American …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We report novel 3D-printed electrospray sources for mass spectrometry (MS) that produce
twice the signal strength of their mainstream counterparts. Leveraging 3D printing to …

Nanowire-Coated Emitter Electrospray Ionizer Coupled to Digital Microfluidics For Liquid Analysis

A Kachkine… - 2022 IEEE 35th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the first integration of nanowire-coated emitters and digital microfluidics: a single
device for liquid sample manipulation and ambient electrospray. Our device enables …

Additively Manufacturing High-Performance, Low-Cost Electrospray Ion Sources for Point-of-Care Mass Spectrometry

A Kachkine - 2023 - dspace.mit.edu
Clinical mass spectrometry relies on ionization of liquid biological samples, often via
electrospray. This work broadly leverages additive manufacturing for the development of …