Silja Senkbeil

TL;DR: In the context of this review, sensor designs are often fairly advanced, whereas the lab-on-a-chip aspect is still rather simplistic in many cases, albeit already offering significant improvements to existing methods.

TL;DR: These results demonstrate that the attractive optical properties of gold nanoparticle probes combine synergistically with the inherent qualities of microfluidic platforms to offer simple, portable and sensitive sensors for environmental contaminants.

TL;DR: Characterization by scanning electron microscopy showed that the methanol-based emulsion templating process resulted in a network of highly interconnected and regular thiol-ene beads anchored solidly inside thiola-ene microchannels in a single photoinitiated step.

TL;DR: In this article, the replication possibilities of microfluidic channels by UV-roll-to-plate fabrication were investigated and a study of rheology-modified thiol-ene for the application in such a UV roll-toplate setup was conducted, which allows the manufacture of channels with aspect ratios of 2:1 and a maximal channel depth of 90 μm as well as the sealing of the finished devices with patterning and sealing speeds of up to 19 m min−1.

TL;DR: An electropermeability technique based on exposing E. coli cells to low voltages to allow extraction of nucleic acids and proteins is developed which has been used to extract RNA and GFP molecules under conditions of electroPermeability.