Lab-on-a-Chip: Frontier Science in the Classroom

Lab-on-a-chip technology is brought into the classroom through development of a lesson series with hands-on practicals. Students can discover the principles of microfluidics with different practicals covering laminar flow, micromixing, and droplet generation, as well as trapping and counting beads....

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Published in:Journal of chemical education 2018-02, Vol.95 (2), p.267-275
Main Authors: Wietsma, Jan Jaap, van der Veen, Jan T, Buesink, Wilfred, van den Berg, Albert, Odijk, Mathieu
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescents
Beads
Chemistry
Classrooms
College Science
Educational Technology
Foreign Countries
Hands on Science
High Schools
Inquiry method
Interdisciplinary subjects
Lab-on-a-chip
Laboratory Equipment
Laboratory Experiments
Laminar flow
Laser beam cutting
Learning outcomes
Microfluidics
Micromixing
Molecular Structure
Science Experiments
Science Instruction
Science Laboratories
Secondary School Science
Secondary school students
Sheets
Students
Technology
Undergraduate Study
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Summary:Lab-on-a-chip technology is brought into the classroom through development of a lesson series with hands-on practicals. Students can discover the principles of microfluidics with different practicals covering laminar flow, micromixing, and droplet generation, as well as trapping and counting beads. A quite affordable novel production technique using scissor-cut and laser-cut lamination sheets is presented, which provides good insight into how scientific lab-on-a-chip devices are produced. In this way high school students can now produce lab-on-a-chip devices using lamination sheets and their own lab-on-a-chip design. We begin with a review of previous reports on the use of lab-on-a-chip technology in classrooms, followed by an overview of the practicals and projects we have developed with student safety in mind. We conclude with an educational scenario and some initial promising results for student learning outcomes.
ISSN:0021-9584
1938-1328
DOI:10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00506