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Advantages of Lab-on-a-chips

2014-09-02 15:56:00 Wenhao Microfludic Technology Co.,LTD Read

Lab-on-a-chips may provide advantages, which are specific to their application. Typical advantages are:

  • low fluid volumes consumption (less waste, lower reagents costs and less required sample volumes for diagnostics)
  • faster analysis and response times due to short diffusion distances, fast heating, high surface to volume ratios, small heat capacities.
  • better process control because of a faster response of the system (e.g. thermal control for exothermic chemical reactions)
  • compactness of the systems due to integration of much functionality and small volumes
  • massive parallelization due to compactness, which allows high-throughput analysis
  • lower fabrication costs, allowing cost-effective disposable chips, fabricated in mass production
  • Part quality may be verified automatically
  • safer platform for chemical, radioactive or biological studies because of integration of functionality, smaller fluid volumes and stored energies

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