Elveflow Microfluidics

🖐️ Elveflow helps: Accelerating Sepsis Detection

🩸 Sepsis affects nearly 50 million people every year and causes 13 million deaths, with survival rates dropping by 8% for every hour of delayed treatment. Rapid identification of pathogens and their antibiotic susceptibility is therefore vital.

🧫 In this study from Prof. Wouter van der Wijngaart’s team at KTH Royal Institute of Technology 🇸🇪, led by PhD researcher Henar Marino Miguélez, the researchers developed a culture-free method to isolate and identify bacteria from whole blood within 2 hours.

🧠 Their approach combines smart centrifugation, microfluidic trapping, and deep learning-based microscopy analysis, enabling the detection of E. coli, K. pneumoniae, and E. faecalis at clinically relevant concentrations as low as 7–32 CFU/mL.

💧 Precise flow control during the microfluidic trapping stage was achieved using Elveflow OB1 pressure controllers, ensuring stable and reproducible conditions for real-time bacterial capture and imaging.

⚙️ This study represents a major step toward rapid, culture-free sepsis diagnostics, bringing us closer to real-time pathogen detection in clinical environments.

📄 Read the full article:

[Culture-free detection of bacteria from blood for rapid sepsis diagnosis](https://go.nature.com/4oAQn9G)

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🖐️ Elveflow helps: Enhancing Human Touch Perception

🔬 The team of Prof. Yan Yan Shery Huang (University of Cambridge 🇬🇧) has demonstrated how tactile augmentation can be achieved by collecting and analyzing triboelectric signals ⚡ generated when the skin interacts with different materials.

☝️ By using a substrate-less microfiber electrode placed on the finger, they formed a body-coupled triboelectric circuit capable of classifying materials with ≈95% accuracy through machine learning 🤖.

💧 To fabricate these microfiber electrodes, the team relied on an Elveflow OB1 microfluidic pressure controller to precisely feed the polymer solution during the printing process — ensuring reproducible fiber geometry and stable flow conditions, both essential for consistent signal acquisition.

✨ This work opens new possibilities for wearable tactile interfaces that can enhance human sensory perception and material recognition.

📄 Read the full article: Tactile Augmentation of Material Classification via Imperceptible On‐Skin Triboelectricity Collection https://bit.ly/47nYCil

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