The
fabrication of a new copper-functionalized lignocellulosic
microreactor (Cu-LμR) from bamboo culms is herein described
together with its operation to perform a copper(I)-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar
cycloaddition between azide and terminal alkyne (CuAAC). The bio-microfluidic
device showed an easy prototyping and fast functionalization with
copper ions. All reactions were carried out in flow regime with aqueous-methanol
solvent and minimal leaching of copper, yielding a series of model
1,4-disubstitued triazole derivatives with good efficiency in a low-resource
setting.
We present prototyping of meso-and microfluidic photocatalytic devices, functionalized through incorporation of TiO 2 nanoparticles in polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), and comparison of their efficiencies for the degradation of rhodamine B (10 −5 mol/L). The prototyping of the photocatalytic devices involves simple and low-cost procedures, which includes microchannels fabrication on PDMS, deposition and impregnation of TiO 2 on PDMS, and, finally, plugging on the individual parts. For the microfluidic device with 13 μL internal volume, photocatalytic TiO 2 -PDMS composite was sealed by another PDMS component activated by O 2 plasma (PDMS-TiO 2 -PDMS). For the mesofluidic device, a homemade polyetheretherketone (PEEK) flow cell with 800 μL internal volume was screwed on a steel support with a glass slide and the photocatalytic composite. The photocatalytic activities of the devices were evaluated using two different pumping flow systems: a peristaltic pump and a syringe pump, both at 0.05 mL/min under the action of 365 nm ultraviolet (UV) light. The characterization of TiO 2 -PDMS composite was performed by confocal Raman microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS). The photocatalytic microreactor was the most efficient, showing high organic dye photodegradation (88.4% at 12.5 mW/cm 2 ).
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