| Grant number: | 17/06985-0 |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor |
| Start date: | June 01, 2017 |
| End date: | May 31, 2018 |
| Field of knowledge: | Engineering - Materials and Metallurgical Engineering - Nonmetallic Materials |
| Principal Investigator: | Varlei Rodrigues |
| Grantee: | Maria Luisa Braunger Fier |
| Supervisor: | Paulo Esteban Campos Arratia |
| Host Institution: | Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin (IFGW). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil |
| Institution abroad: | University of Pennsylvania, United States |
| Associated to the scholarship: | 15/14836-9 - 3D printing technology application for microfluidic developments, BP.PD |
Abstract An e-tongue is a multisensory system that can characterize liquid samples using statistical tools. Various e-tongues have been reported with numerous applications, recently also incorporating the concept of microfluidics. So far, we have worked with regular polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microfluidic devices and started a few developments with 3D-printing technology both using e-tongue systems for soil analysis (ongoing studies). However, we are yet to build (and investigate) a full-3D-printed microfluidic e-tongue prototype due to limitations imposed by the fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D printing process, a commonly used 3D printing technology. We strongly believe that this goal can be achieved by taking advantage of the University of Pennsylvania's 3D printing infrastructure, which includes state-of-the-art added-manufacturing technologies thus enabling the development of 3D-printed devices for e-tongue systems and other applications. | |
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