title: Liquid density effect on burst frequency in centrifugal microfluidic platforms.
abstract: Centrifugal microfluidic platforms are widely used in various advanced processes such as biomedical diagnostics, chemical analysis and drug screening. This paper investigates the effect of liquid density on the burst frequency of the centrifugal microfluidic platform. This effect is experimentally investigated and compared to theoretical values. It is found that increasing the liquid density results in lower burst frequency and it is in agreement with theoretical calculations. Moreover, in this study we proposed the use of the microfluidic CD platform as an inexpensive and simple sensor for liquid density measurements. The proposed liquid sensor requires much less liquid volume (in the range of microliters) compared to conventional density meters. This study presents fundamental work which allows for future advance studies with the aim of designing and fabricating centrifugal microfluidic platforms for more complex tasks such as blood analysis.
authors.forename: Wisam
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Al-Faqheri
authors.forename: Fatimah
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ibrahim
authors.forename: Tzer Hwai Gilbert
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Thio
authors.forename: Karunan
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Joseph
authors.forename: Mas S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Mohktar
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Madou
mesh_terms: D002498:Centrifugation; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D046210:Microfluidic Analytical Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D044085:Microfluidics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D019904:Polymethyl Methacrylate / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D019904:Polymethyl Methacrylate