Lab on a Capillary: Instrument-Free Compartmentalization Using Photopatterned Hydrogel Rings Embedded inside a Glass Capillary for Amplified Bioassays
Yimin Yang, Muhammad Usman Akhtar, Mehmet Akif Şahin, Yibo Huang, Liusu Wang, Xinpei Song, Ghulam Destgeer
The paper introduces LabCap, a low-cost, instrument-free platform for biomarker detection using hydrogel rings in glass capillaries, achieving sensitivity down to 0.1 ng/mL for CRP and NT-proBNP.
Lab on a Chip · Jan 1, 2026Peer-reviewedBioengineering