University of California, San Diego researchers have developed a microfluidic chip, can use radio frequency transmitters (RFID) to the electrophoresis power supply.
This is the first time scientists have developed a chip remote power supply laboratory equipment.
Electrophoresis is the use of electric fields to manipulate the charged particles of a technology. To improve throughput, glue stick scientists have developed a number of micro-chips, but these chips tend to require together with bulky electrical equipment.
University of California, San Diego, researchers will be printed on a plastic chip circuit board, circuit board contains a large number of microporous hollow and filled with a negatively charged nanoparticles. Negatively charged particles in the initial state of motion in random, researchers can identify the introduction of RFID in the field, this time negatively charged particles trapped in the pores of the positively charged. glue gun RFID identification cards using radio frequency pulse transmission, it will produce electricity for the chip supply.
The device is characterized by a low production cost, easy to use, if the RFID transmitter installed in the microscope, microscope and camera can be used to capture particles moving images. The researchers said that the chip used to using the optical microscope for the diagnosis of the pathologists and clinicians is a boon, it can simplify the complexity of the operation of sophisticated electronic equipment, thereby increasing the disease doctors diagnosis.