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Lab‐on‐a‐Print: Desktop Microfabrication for Quantitative Biology
Author(s) -
Pan Tingrui
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.26.1_supplement.577.7
Subject(s) - nanotechnology , cleanroom , nanolithography , microfabrication , computer science , electronics , materials science , fabrication , engineering , electrical engineering , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
Motivated by the growing demand for low‐cost, easy‐to‐use, compact‐size yet powerful micro‐nanofabrication technologies, we have been investigating engineering solutions to address emerging challenges of fundamental biology and translational medicine in regular laboratory settings. Recent advancements in the field benefit considerably from rapidly expanding material selections, ranging from inorganics to organics and from nanoparticles to self‐assembled molecules. Meanwhile a great number of novel methodologies, employing off‐the‐shelf consumer electronics, intriguing interfacial phenomena, bottom‐up self‐assembly principles, etc., have been implemented to transit micro‐nanofabrication from a cleanroom environment to a desktop setup. Furthermore, the latest application of micro‐nanofabrication to emerging biomedical research will be presented, which includes point‐of‐care diagnostics, on‐chip cell culture as well as bio‐manipulation.