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Microfluidics
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Integrated Optics
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Life Sciences
Components and systems based on microfluidics and integrated optics
The revolutionizing potential of BioMEMS and Lab-on-a-Chip systems is widely recognized in biotechnology and related application areas in Life Sciences such as food safety, genomics, biochemical analysis, pharmacy, medical diagnostics and drug delivery. Benefits of microtechnology-based systems are the reduced costs (less reagents), better performance (instantaneous mixing and heating) and higher throughput (more parallel and shorter experiments). Today, only parts of the process chain are miniaturised but leading equipment innovators expect that processes like cell lycing, sample amplification and dilution, sample cleaning, fluorescent labeling, process monitoring and optical detection are all integrated in Lab-on-a-Chip systems in the next couple of years.
Lionix' expertises
- Glass and silicon biochips for analysis, sample processing, flow-through cells, dosing, etc. (Lab-on-a-Chip).
- Biosensors based on integrated optics
- The integration of optical detection techniques and microfluidic chips
- System integration based on our microfluidic MATAS platform