"Fabricação e avaliação de microdispositivos para eletroforese com detecção eletroquímica" / "Fabrication and Evaluation of Electrophoresis Microdevices coupled with Electrochemical Detection"

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2004

RESUMO

This work describes the development of electrophoresis microchip fabricated by direct-printing and photolithographic processes. The channel structures of the devices fabricated by direct-printing process are defined by polyester films (base and cover) and by a toner layer (walls). The characterization of toner surface and composition were necessary for a better understanding of the chemistry composition and for this purpose we have used different techniques such as CHN-O elemental analysis, AFM, EDX and SEM. Besides the chemistry of toner, the possible dimensions for the channels as the depth and the width were also studied. The application of a gray-scale effect in the channels was evaluated in order to create a preconcentration device using the toner particles as obstacles for the flow. The polyester-toner microdevices were coupled with end-channel amperometric detection using electrodes produced by combination of the toner masks laser-printing and compact discs as a gold source. The performance of this electrophoresis microchip was evaluated by amperometric detection of iodide and ascorbate. The detection limits found were 500 nmol L-1 (135 amol) and 1.2 mmol L-1 (486 amol) for iodide and ascorbate, respectively. Besides the direct-printing process, the photolithographic process was also used for this purpose. In this process it was used the SU-8 negative photoresist and microdevices with 1-cm2 area were fabricated using different substrates such as glass, silicon and alumina. The alumina presented several irregularities for the microdevices fabricated. Problems with the absorption and dispersion of ultraviolet radiation were observed. However, the alumina was an excellent material for the steps in the production of two metallic molds for fast production of PDMS devices. One mold with complex geometry was obtained in order to study a new injection system and a second mold was prepared to evaluate the use of silicon rubber as molding material. Furthermore, in this work it was also reported the development of a microfabricated device with fully integrated electrodes for separation and electrochemical detection. The gold or titanium/platinum electrodes were obtained by lift-off technique. The masks for fabrication of the metallic molds and of the integrated microdevices were prepared in transparency films with high resolution.

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eletroforese electrochemical detection electrophoresis detecção eletroquímica miniaturização miniaturization

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