@article{1a078b4a72c2489292d5ae329cdc0bea,
title = "Performance characteristics of a polypyrrole modified polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) membrane based microfluidic pump",
abstract = "In this paper, we present a low-cost, low-voltage and low-power polypyrrole-membrane microfluidic pump with two one-way push button check valves. This polymeric microfluidic pump is fabricated with a conductive polymer (polypyrrole) modified poly dimethylsiloxane (PDMS) membrane encased into a poly-methylmethacrylate (PMMA) structure. The pumping action is induced by an electrochemical actuated PPy-PDMS membrane while check valves at the inlet and outlet control the flow direction in the respective pump phases. This pump is self-priming. Accurate control of the output flow rate can be obtained by changing the actuation frequency. With this pump, a maximum pumping rate of 52 μL/min was achieved using an input power of 55 mW operated at ±1.5 V.",
keywords = "Electrochemical actuator, Microfluidic, Micropump, Polypyrrole",
author = "Kim, {Jung Ho} and Lau, {King Tong} and Rod Shepherd and Yanzhe Wu and Gordon Wallace and Dermot Diamond",
note = "Funding Information: This work was funded by Science Foundation Ireland (Grant no. SFI 03/IN.3/1361), the Biotex Project (FP6-2004-1ST-NMP-2), Australian Research Council Linkage Grant and Korean Research Foundation (KRF-2005-214-D00236). Funding Information: Dermot Diamond received his PhD and DSc from Queen's University Belfast (Chemical Sensors, 1987, Internet Scale Sensing, 2002), and was Vice president for Research at Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland (2002–2004). He has published over 160 peer reviewed papers in international science journals, is a named inventor in 13 patents, and is co-author and editor of three books {\textquoteleft}Spreadsheet Applications in Chemistry using Microsoft Excel{\textquoteright} (1997), {\textquoteleft}Principles of Chemical and Biological Sensors{\textquoteright} (1998), both published by Wiley, and {\textquoteleft}Smart NanoTextiles{\textquoteright}, eds. Xiaoming Tao, Gerhard Troster, Dermot Diamond, Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, Volume 20, (2006). Professor Diamond is currently director of the National Centre for Sensor Research at DCU ( www.ncsr.ie ) and a Principal Investigator with under CLARITY, a major research initiative in the area of wireless sensor networks funded by Science Foundation Ireland. He was also formerly the director of the Centre for Bioanalytical Sciences ( www.cbas.ie ) and is a member of the editorial advisory board of the international journal {\textquoteleft}Talanta{\textquoteright}. In 2002 he was awarded the inaugural silver medal for Sensor Research by the Royal Society of Chemistry, London. Details of his research can be found at http://www.dcu.ie/chemistry/asg/ .",
year = "2008",
month = nov,
day = "4",
doi = "10.1016/j.sna.2008.07.029",
language = "English",
volume = "148",
pages = "239--244",
journal = "Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical",
issn = "0924-4247",
number = "1",
}