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Lab-on-a-chip workshop activities for secondary school students
- Source :
- Biomicrofluidics. 10(1)
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- The ability to engage and inspire younger generations in novel areas of science is important for bringing new researchers into a burgeoning field, such as lab-on-a-chip. We recently held a lab-on-a-chip workshop for secondary school students, for which we developed a number of hands-on activities that explained various aspects of microfluidic technology, including fabrication (milling and moulding of microfluidic devices, and wax printing of microfluidic paper-based analytical devices, so-called μPADs), flow regimes (gradient formation via diffusive mixing), and applications (tissue analysis and μPADs). Questionnaires completed by the students indicated that they found the workshop both interesting and informative, with all activities proving successful, while providing feedback that could be incorporated into later iterations of the event.
- Subjects :
- Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
Biomedical education
Multimedia
Computer science
Event (computing)
010401 analytical chemistry
Biomedical Engineering
Nanotechnology
02 engineering and technology
Lab-on-a-chip
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Condensed Matter Physics
computer.software_genre
01 natural sciences
0104 chemical sciences
law.invention
Colloid and Surface Chemistry
law
Hardware_INTEGRATEDCIRCUITS
General Materials Science
0210 nano-technology
computer
Perspectives
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19321058
- Volume :
- 10
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Biomicrofluidics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cf85145af0c1a3c6a7c4520555bb39ce