%0 Journal Article
%T Life-Saving Threads: Advances in Textile-Based Analytical Devices
%J -
%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.1021/acscombsci.8b00126
%X 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 ˇ°chipˇ± 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
%U https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscombsci.8b00126