Cost-effective, high-performance micropumps for lab-on-a-chip disease diagnosis
Friday, September 5, 2014 - 00:31
in Physics & Chemistry
Researchers have demonstrated an acoustofluidic pump powered by a piezoelectric transducer about the size of a quarter. This reliable, inexpensive, programmable pump is a crucial feature for lab-on-a-chip devices that could make the diagnosis of many global life-threatening diseases easy and affordable.