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Laser-based engineering (Lab-flo)

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Robert Eason

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Email: rwe@orc.soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Dr Collin Sones

Principal Research Fellow
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Email: cls@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Paul Elkington

Director of Inst. for Medical Innovation

Research interests

  • tuberculosis
  • immunopathology
  • diagnosis
Connect with Paul

Email: P.Elkington@soton.ac.uk

Professor Tony Williams

Professor of Translational Medicine
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Email: A.P.Williams@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Laser-Direct-Write (LDW) Technologies for Biomedical Applications

We explore the use of lasers to create sensors that can be used by a patient’s bedside to test for an underlying disease or a health condition.

Research outputs

Semi-quantitative detection of inflammatory biomarkers using a laser-patterned multiplexed lateral flow device
Alice H. Iles, Peijun J.W. He, Ioannis N. Katis, Panagiotis P. Galanis, Anto J.U.K. John, Paul Elkington, Robert W. Eason & Collin L. Sones, 2020, Talanta, 237, 1-8
DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2021.122944
Type: article
A rapid diagnostic test for human Visceral Leishmaniasis using novel Leishmania antigens in a laser direct-write lateral flow device
Maria Humbert, Lourena Emanuele Costa, Ioannis Katis, Fernanda Fonseca Ramos, Amanda Sanchez Machado, Collin Sones, Eduardo Antonio Ferraz Coelho & Myron Christodoulides, 2019, Emerging Microbes and Infections, 8(1), 1178-1185
DOI: 10.1080/22221751.2019.1635430
Type: article
Laser-direct-writing to enable filtration in paper-based devices
Panagiotis P. Galanis, Peijun J.W. He, Ioannis N. Katis, Michael R. Thomas, Yunlei Xianyu, Molly M. Stevens, Robert W. Eason & Collin L. Sones, 2019
DOI: 10.1117/12.2508753
Type: conference
Rapid multiplexed detection on lateral-flow devices using a laser direct-write technique
Peijun He, Ioannis Katis, Robert Eason & Collin L Sones, 2018, Biosensors
DOI: 10.3390/bios8040097
Type: article
Improved sensitivity and limit-of-detection of lateral flow devices using spatial constrictions of the flow-path
Ioannis Katis, Peijun He, Robert Eason & Collin Sones, 2018, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 113, 95-100
DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2018.05.001
Type: article