Novel approaches that incorporate electrofluidic and microfluidic technologies are reviewed to illustrate the translation of traditional enclosed structures into open and accessible textile based platforms. Through the utilization of on-fiber and on-textile microfluidics, it is possible to invert the typical enclosed capillary column or microfluidic "chip" platform, to achieve surface accessible efficient separations and fluid handling, while maintaining a microfluidic environment. The open fiber/textile based fluidics approach immediately provides new possibilities to interrogate, manipulate, redirect, extract, characterize, and quantify solutes and target species at any point in time during such processes as on-fiber electrodriven separations. This approach is revolutionary in its simplicity and provides many potential advantages not otherwise afforded by the more traditional enclosed platforms.

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Keywords:	fiber, textile, microfluidic, electrophoretic, separation
Research Division:	Chemical Sciences
Research Group:	Analytical chemistry
Research Field:	Sensor technology (incl. chemical aspects)
Objective Division:	Expanding Knowledge
Objective Group:	Expanding knowledge
Objective Field:	Expanding knowledge in the chemical sciences
UTAS Author:	Cabot, JM (Dr Joan Cabot Canyelles)
UTAS Author:	Paull, B (Professor Brett Paull)
ID Code:	134571
Year Published:	2019
Web of Science® Times Cited:	26
Deposited By:	Austn Centre for Research in Separation Science
Deposited On:	2019-08-20
Last Modified:	2019-12-05
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