Overview
- Introduces how paper-based diagnostics can be used in developing countries by comparing other, current diagnostic tests against the World Health Organization’s ASSURED criteria
- Examines how paper-based diagnostics can be integrated with other technologies, such as printed electronics and the Internet of Things, and details how academic and commercial groups can use them in their work
- Outlines how semi-skilled personnel across a variety of fields can implement paper-based diagnostics
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores the status of paper-based diagnostic solutions, or Microfluidics 2.0. The contributors explore: how paper-based tests can be widely distributed and utilized by semi-skilled personnel; how close to commercial applications the technology has become, and what is still required to make paper-based diagnostics the game-changer it can be. The technology is examined through the lens of the World Health Organization’s ASSURED criteria for low-resource countries (Affordable, Sensitive, Specific, User-friendly, Rapid and robust, Equipment-free, and Deliverable to end-users). Its applications have to include: health technology, environmental technology, food safety, and more. This book is appropriate for researchers in these areas, as well as those interested in microfluidics, and includes chapters dedicated to principles such as theory of flow and surface treatments; components such as biomarkers and detection; and current methods of manufacturing.
Discusses howpaper-based diagnostics can be used in developing countries by comparing current diagnostic tests with the World Health Organization's ASSURED criteria
Examines how paper-based diagnostics could be integrated with other technologies, such as printed electronics, and the Internet of Things.
Outlines how semi-skilled personnel across a variety of fields can implement paper-based diagnostics
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Kevin Land is the Microsystems Platform Leader at The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Paper-based Diagnostics
Book Subtitle: Current Status and Future Applications
Editors: Kevin J. Land
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96870-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96868-1Published: 18 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96870-4Published: 11 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 220
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 74 illustrations in colour
Topics: Engineering Fluid Dynamics, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Nanotechnology and Microengineering, Biotechnology, Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics