Research project

International-Commercialisation of droplet microfluidic based chemical sensors for rapid measurement of nutrients in water - NERC - Niu

Research groups:

Mechatronics
Lead researcher:

Professor Xize Niu
Other researchers:

Dr Adrian Nightingale,

Professor Hywel Morgan
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Xize Niu

Professor of Biosensing&Microengineering

Connect with Xize

Email: X.Niu@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Dr Adrian Nightingale

Lecturer in Microfluidics&Sensor Design

Connect with Adrian

Email: A.Nightingale@soton.ac.uk

Professor Hywel Morgan MBE

Professor of Bioelectronics

Connect with Hywel

Email: hm@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

IT Innovation

We develop and apply advances in IT technology, working with academic and industrial partners.

Digital Health and Biomedical Engineering

Our group brings together engineers and computer scientists to discover new approaches to diagnose and manage health and medical conditions.

Mechatronics

Our research examines the combination of mechanical and electrical engineering and computer science.

Research outputs

Droplet microfluidic-based In situ analyzer for monitoring free nitrate in soil

Bingyuan Lu, James Lunn, Ken Yeung, Selva Dhandapani, Liam Carter, Tiina Roose, Liz Shaw, Adrian Nightingale & Xize Niu, 2024, Environmental Science & Technology, 58(6), 2956-2965

DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c08207

Type: article

Easily fabricated monolithic fluoropolymer chips for sensitive long-term absorbance measurement in droplet microfluidics

Adrian Nightingale, Sammer-Ul Hassan, Kyriacos Makris, Wahida Taskin Bhuiyan, Terence Harvey & Xize Niu, 2020, RSC Advances, 10(51), 30975-30981

DOI: 10.1039/D0RA05330A

Type: article

Lactate monitoring in droplet microfluidics: a cautionary tale in assay miniaturisation

Chi Leng Leong, Sharon Coleman, Adrian Nightingale, Sammer-Ul Hassan, David Voegeli, Martyn G. Boutelle & Xize Niu, 2019, Analytical Methods, 11(48), 6119-6123

DOI: 10.1039/C9AY02070E

Type: article

A droplet microfluidic-based sensor for simultaneous in situ monitoring of nitrate and nitrite in natural waters

Adrian Nightingale, Sammer-Ul Hassan, Brett Warren, Kyriacos Makris, Gareth W.H. Evans, Evanthia Papadopoulou, Sharon Coleman & Xize Niu, 2019, Environmental Science & Technology, 53(16), 9677-9685

DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b01032

Type: article

Monitoring biomolecule concentrations in tissue using a wearable droplet microfluidic-based sensor

Adrian Nightingale, Chi Leng Leong, Rachel Burnish, Sammer-Ul Hassan, Yu Zhang, Geraldine Clough, Martyn G. Boutelle, David Voegeli & Xize Niu, 2019, Nature Communications, 10

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10401-y

Type: article