Research project

Droplet microfluidic based chemical sensors for rapid measurement of nutrients in water

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

Research interests

Microfluidics
Bio-sensors
Lab-on-a-chip technologies

Connect with Hywel

Email: hm@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

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

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

Nitrate measurement in droplet flow

Adrian Nightingale, Sammer-Ul Hassan, Gareth, William Harry Evans, Sharon Coleman & Xize Niu, 2018, Lab on a Chip

DOI: 10.1039/C8LC00092A

Type: article

Phased peristaltic micropumping for continuous sampling and hardcoded droplet generation

Adrian Nightingale, Gareth Evans, Peixiang Xu, Byung Jae Kim, Sammer-Ul Hassan & Xize Niu, 2017, Lab on a Chip, 17(6), 1149-1157

DOI: 10.1039/C6LC01479H

Type: article