Low-cost plug and play photochemistry reactor

Economic savings for scientific free and open source technology: A review

“…Overall the average open hardware scientific tool saved 87% compared to the proprietary tool. These savings ranged from on the high end over 99% for robots [21] , sensors [22] , reactors [23] , analytical equipment [24] and digital manufacturing equipment [25] . The latter type of equipment that is used for the automation of experiments or further custom scientific experiments generally saved a large percentage over commercial products (e.g.…”

“…There are shields for scientific applications ranging from pH monitoring [2] to medical devices [52] and measuring air quality using wireless self-powered devices [53] . Many of the studies reviewed in Table A1 either developed or used Arduino shields including references [23] , [54] , [55] , [56] , [57] , [58] , [59] . Fabrication of an Arduino device using a shield is often literally “plug and play” so again the time investment calculation is unnecessary.…”

Dual Photoredox Catalysis Strategy for Enhanced Photopolymerization-Based Colorimetric Biodetection

“…The MB + -specific EY amplification demonstrated here not only enables 100-to 500-fold enhancement in sensitivity but also provides high practicality compared to liposome-enhanced PBA 15 in that the EYH 3− reagent can be stored at room temperature 16 in contrast to liposomes that should be stored at 4 °C. Furthermore, the amplification time for the new method is still reasonably short (5 min under red light + 40 s under green light for the paperbased tests), and low-cost portable light sources 32 can be developed for the dual photoredox catalysis. Therefore, we envision that the photocatalyst-amplified PBA will be especially useful for rapid diagnostic tests at the point of care.…”

Radical polymerization reactions for amplified biodetection signals

“…Recently, miniaturized devices to replace lab equipment are being developed, which could potentially replace electricity-powered LED arrays, electrochemical cells, and hot plates or temperature controllers with portable, batterypowered or smartphone-based devices. [109][110][111][112] Thus, initiation processes with external stimuli such as light, voltage or current, and heat can maintain their practicality. The polymerization methods requiring inert gas purging may be excluded from practical applications, but the demands for sealed reactors as in oxygen-tolerant ATRP methods could be resolved with simple methods such as plastic sealing bags or sealing tapes.…”