Design, Simulation and Fabrication of a Novel Phage Filter for Pathogens Testing from Large Volumes of Water

In this paper, a phage filter has been developed to capture, concentrate and isolate small numbers of pathogens from large volumes of water. The phage filter consists of a magnetized filter frame and hundreds of phage-coated filter elements made of a magnetoelastic material. ANSYS Maxwell simulation...

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Published in:ECS transactions 2017-01, Vol.80 (10), p.1523-1530
Main Authors: Lu, Xu, Du, Songtao, Horikawa, Shin, Chen, I-Hsuan, Liu, Yuzhe, Chin, Bryan A.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:In this paper, a phage filter has been developed to capture, concentrate and isolate small numbers of pathogens from large volumes of water. The phage filter consists of a magnetized filter frame and hundreds of phage-coated filter elements made of a magnetoelastic material. ANSYS Maxwell simulations have been conducted on filter designs. Pairs of magnets were used to generate a uniform magnitude of magnetic flux density and a desired direction of flux vectors to align and hold filter elements on the frame. The strip-like filter elements were made of Metglas 2826MB ribbon by mechanically dicing. A prototype filter with high density of filter elements in the size of 2″ has been demonstrated.
ISSN:1938-5862
1938-6737
1938-6737
1938-5862
DOI:10.1149/08010.1523ecst