Angry pathogens, how to get rid of them : introducing microfluidics for waterborne pathogen separation to children
Jimenez, Melanie and Bridle, Helen L. (2015) Angry pathogens, how to get rid of them : introducing microfluidics for waterborne pathogen separation to children. Lab on a Chip, 15 (4). pp. 947-957. ISSN 1473-0197 (https://doi.org/10.1039/c4lc00944d)
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Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to present a new approach for introducing to a non-scientific audience a major public health issue: access to safe drinking water. Access to safe drinking water is a privilege in developed countries and an urgent need in the third world, which implies always more efficient and reliable engineering tools to be developed. As a major global challenge it is important to make children aware of this problem for understanding (i) what safe drinking water is, (ii) how ingenious techniques are developed for this purpose and (iii) the role of microfluidics in this area. This paper focuses on different microfluidic-based techniques to separate and detect pathogens in drinking water that have been adapted to be performed by a young audience in a simplified, recreational and interactive way.
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Item type: Article ID code: 90124 Dates: DateEvent21 February 2015Published19 November 2014Published Online19 November 2014AcceptedSubjects: Technology > Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) > Bioengineering Department: Faculty of Engineering > Biomedical Engineering Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 05 Aug 2024 11:20 Last modified: 05 Aug 2024 11:20 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/90124