title: Lab-on-a-chip systems for biomedical and environmental monitoring.
abstract: During the last decade, pocket-sized analytical equipment based on the "lab-on-a-chip" approach has become available. These chips, in combination with portable electronic equipment, are applicable in, for example, "point-of-care" ion analysis of body fluids, forensics, identification of explosives, tracking of pollution in environmental or waste waters, monitoring nutrients in agricultural or horticultural water, controlling quality in food production, or process control in chemical industry. This paper discusses several demonstrator systems with applications in these fields.
authors.affiliation: BIOS/Lab-on-a-chip group, MESA+ Institute, University of Twente, PO Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: J G E
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Gardeniers
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: van den Berg
mesh_terms: D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012666:Semiconductors