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This project was funded by the technology transfer program of the Fundacion Botin. We thank David Izquierdo, Miriam Funes and IBEC Nanotechnology platform staff for technical help and Elena Martinez and Anna Lagunas for helpful discussions. We would like to specially thank David Caballero and Albert Garcia for their generous help. We thank Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB) for providing the human blood samples.

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Highly hydrophilic microfluidic device prototyping using a novel poly(dimethylsiloxane)-based polymeric mix

Publicated to:Rsc Advances. 5 (10): 7423-7425 - 2015-01-01 5(10), DOI: 10.1039/c4ra14750b

Authors: Rigat-Brugarolas, LG; Homs-Corbera, A; Samitier, J

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Ctr Invest Biomed Red Bioingn Biomat & Nanomed CI, Zaragoza, Spain - Author
Inst Bioengn Catalonia IBEC, Nanobioengn Grp, Barcelona, Spain - Author
Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia - Author
Nanobioengineering. Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia - Author
Univ Barcelona, Dept Elect, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain - Author
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Abstract

We present a novel methodology to create in a simple, fast and cheap way an interpenetrating polymer network biomaterial, mixing 2-hydroxyethilmethacrylate and poly(dimethylsiloxane), for long-lasting highly hydrophilic microfluidic device prototyping. The presented polymer could be potentially useful to develop point-of-care microfluidic diagnostic devices allowing blood displacement without exertion in microchannels while proving to have low biological analytes adhesion.

Keywords
Biological analytesBiological materialsDiagnostic deviceFluidic devicesHydrophilicityHydrophobicity recoveryLong lastingMicro-fluidic devicesMicrofluidicsNovel methodologyPdmsPoint of carePolydimethylsiloxanePolymersSurface modificationSystems

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Rsc Advances due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2015, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Chemical Engineering (Miscellaneous). Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-05-02:

  • WoS: 5
  • Scopus: 5
  • OpenCitations: 5
Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-05-02:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 19.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 19 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 3.
Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Rigat Brugarolas, Luís) and Last Author (Samitier Martí, Josep).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Rigat Brugarolas, Luís.