Researchers expand capabilities of miniature analyzer for complex samples
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 08:30
in Physics & Chemistry
(PhysOrg.com) -- Its not often that someone can claim that going from a positive to a negative is a step forward, but thats the case for a team of scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and private industry. In a recent paper,* the group significantly extended the reach of their novel microfluidic system for analyzing the chemical components of complex samples. The new work shows how the system, meant to analyze real-world, crude mixtures such as dirt or whole blood, can work for negatively charged components as well as it has in the past for positively charged ones.