Nuno M Reis

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Label-free 1D microfluidic dipstick counting of microbial colonies and bacteriophage plaques† Sultan İlayda Dönmez, *a Sarah H. Needs, a Helen M. I. Osborn,a Nuno M. Reis bc and Alexander D. Edwards *ac Abstract Counting viable bacterial cells and functional bacteriophage is fundamental to microbiology underpinning research, surveillance, biopharmaceuticals and diagnostics.

In this work a novel multi-microfluidic crystallization platform called MMicroCryGen is presented, enabling the generation of single crystals and fast and easy screening for polymorphism and crystal habit of solid compounds without any complex fluid handling. The MMicroCryGen device allows performing 8×10 cooling crystallization experiments in parallel using 8 disposable micro-capillary film strips, each containing 10 independent capillaries of 25 μL volume.