Capillarity-driven blood plasma separation on paper-based devices.
We demonstrate capillarity-driven plasma separation from whole blood on simple paper-based H-channels. This methodology, unlike other reported techniques, does not necessitate elaborate and complex instrumentation, and the usage of expensive consumables. We believe that this technique will be ideally suited to be implemented in rapid and portable blood diagnostic devices designed to be operative at locations with limited resources.
Advanced Technology Development Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur-721302, India. suman@mech.iitkgp.ernet.in.
Shantimoy
S
Kar
Tapas Kumar
TK
Maiti
Suman
S
Chakraborty
D002197:Capillary Action; D004058:Diffusion; D005374:Filtration / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D010209:Paper; D010949:Plasma