Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Vol.592, 22-32, 2021
The micro-volume liquid focusing effect in Janus membrane and its biosensing application
The micro-volume analysis and specific detection are both essential requirements in the field of chemical sensing and biological testing. Membrane prefiltration can be used to improve the selectivity and accuracy of detection. But for traditional porous membrane filtration, it is difficult to achieve the transmembrane transport of micro-volume liquid due to the influence of lateral diffusion on membrane surface. Herein, we studied the focused transmembrane transport of micro-volume liquid in the porous polyethersulfone membrane with asymmetric (Janus) surface wettability. The hydrophilic layer (polydopamine) and hydrophobic layer (fluoropolymer) were deposited with controllable thickness by dipcoating and roller-assisted liquid printing. The micro-volume liquid focusing effect was verified by experiments such as visual wetting circle and fluorescent tracer. The liquid focusing effect of as-prepared Janus membrane was integrated with glucose test strip in the application of micro-volume liquid biosensing. Compared with conventional porous membrane, detected signal amplitude and response time were The micro-volume analysis and specific detection are both essential requirements in the field of chemical sensing and biological testing. Membrane prefiltration can be used to improve the selectivity and accu-racy of detection. But for traditional porous membrane filtration, it is difficult to achieve the transmem-brane transport of micro-volume liquid due to the influence of lateral diffusion on membrane surface. Herein, we studied the focused transmembrane transport of micro-volume liquid in the porous polyethersulfone membrane with asymmetric (Janus) surface wettability. The hydrophilic layer (poly-dopamine) and hydrophobic layer (fluoropolymer) were deposited with controllable thickness by dip-coating and roller-assisted liquid printing. The micro-volume liquid focusing effect was verified by exper-iments such as visual wetting circle and fluorescent tracer. The liquid focusing effect of as-prepared Janus membrane was integrated with glucose test strip in the application of micro-volume liquid biosensing. Compared with conventional porous membrane, detected signal amplitude and response time were & nbsp;improved 7.5x and 2.7x, respectively. In summary, this research studied the dynamics of liquid transport through Janus membrane and provides a new strategy for microfluidic detection applications through balancing detection volume, time and selectivity by the advantage of micro-volume liquid focusing effect. (c) 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Keywords:Janus water-diode like membrane;Asymmetric wettability;Directional liquid transport;Micro-volume liquid focusing permeation;mechanism