出版社：Chinese Association for Aerosol Research in Taiwan
摘要：Nowadays, the airborne fungal spores have always taken an important role in the spread of crop fungal diseases and caused great concern. In this study, a novel efficient microfluidic chip for enriching the airborne fungal spores directly from gas flow was developed, which has better portability and cost-efficiency. The chip consists of three parts: half-wave pretreatment channel, inertial impactor, and low-pressure collection chamber. During the collection process, the particles were arranged in the radial position of the half-wave pretreatment channel based on their sizes, then separated by the inertial impactor and collected in the low-pressure collection chamber. The size distribution of the collected target was calculated by image process and recognition. The results show that the cut-off sizes of the proposed microfluidic device was found to be 4.83 µm (first-stage) and 0.98 µm (second-stage), respectively. The sharpness of the first and the second-stage collection efficiency curves were 1.31 and 1.79 respectively. The bounce effects and re-entrainment of particles can be eliminated by the low-pressure collection chamber without any silicon oil or grease. The collection reproducibility is acceptable. As a result, the proposed microfluidic chip can realize the crop fungal spore collection efficiently and can be used to improve the development of real-time crop fungal diseases monitoring technology.
