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S&M2856 Research Paper of Special Issue https://doi.org/10.18494/SAM.2022.3644 Published in advance: January 6, 2022 Published: February 28, 2022 Design and Implementation of a Miniaturized Dual-wavelength UV Crosslinker [PDF] Zhiyou Wang and Maojin Wang (Received September 6, 2021; Accepted December 1, 2021) Keywords: LED light source, Wi-Fi communication, uniform irradiation, palm size
To satisfy the requirement of microarray fabrication in optical sensing applications, we report a palm-sized UV LED crosslinker. By employing a microcontroller and the Wi-Fi communication technique, a sequence of different wavelengths, irradiation intensities, and crosslinking durations can be programmed by an Android app. To evaluate the irradiation uniformity of the crosslinker, we immobilized an array of fluorescent-labeled proteins on a silver substrate of high flatness by the reported crosslinker in 8 s and measured the fluorescence intensity throughout the array. For protein spots of the same concentration, the intensity difference is around 10% of the average value. The results show that the reported UV LED crosslinker can help to achieve the uniform and efficient immobilization of a protein microarray.
Corresponding author: Zhiyou WangThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Cite this article Zhiyou Wang and Maojin Wang, Design and Implementation of a Miniaturized Dual-wavelength UV Crosslinker, Sens. Mater., Vol. 34, No. 2, 2022, p. 835-841. |