Ricerc@Sapienza

The present contribution reports on the analysis of the electrochemical properties of screen-printed nickel oxide (NiO) in aqueous electrolyte when NiO is in the configuration of thin film (thickness, l ≤ 7 μm). This type of NiO samples presents mesoscopic morphology. The latter characteristic combined to the intrinsic electroactivity of the oxide leads to the observation of proportionality between NiO thickness and current density. In particular, NiO undergoes two distinct processes of oxidation with reversible features in aqueous media.

In this paper we demonstrate the implementation of a micro-scaled integrated system with the aim to sort, estimate and monitor the biomass of living cancer cells suspended in a culture medium. For this purpose, a 3D microfluidic network is designed to route small volumes of biological samples to the testing sites and dielectric spectroscopy is chosen as investigation method. Comparative electrical analyses are guaranteed by the separation of sole medium and medium-cells mixture in two different areas of the chip.