Author(s)

Amer Charbaji, Hojat Heidari-Bafroui, Constantine Anagnostopoulos, Mohammad Faghri

Microfluidics Laboratory, Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, USA.

Zinc and its compounds, alloys and composites play an important role in the modern day world and find application in almost every aspect that can improve the quality of our lives. This ranges from supplements and pharmaceuticals that are meant to improve our health and wellbeing to additives meant to guard or reduce corrosion in metals. However, over the past several years, a new area of technology has been garnering a great deal of attention and has made use of zinc and its compounds. This is with reference to paper-based microfluidic technology that offers several advantages and that keeps expanding in the amount of applications it covers. In this paper, a review is offered for the applications that have used zinc or zinc compounds in paper-based microfluidic devices.

Zinc, Zinc Oxide, Zinc Compounds, Paper-Based Devices, Paper Microfluidics, Low-Cost Platforms, Point-of-Care Diagnostics

Charbaji, A. , Heidari-Bafroui, H. , Anagnostopoulos, C. and Faghri, M. (2021) Literature Review of the Use of Zinc and Zinc Compounds in Paper-Based Microfluidic Devices. Journal of Minerals and Materials Characterization and Engineering, 9, 257-270. doi: 10.4236/jmmce.2021.93018.