Water Resources Research Act Program

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Details for Project ID 2005NJ87B

Lab-on-a-chip device for monitoring trace level arsenic

Institute: New Jersey
Year Established: 2005 Start Date: 2005-03-01 End Date: 2006-02-28
Total Federal Funds: $5,000 Total Non-Federal Funds: $9,775

Principal Investigators: Kamilah Hylton, Somenath Mitra

Project Summary: This study aims at the development of a low cost, lab-on-a-chip field instrument that is capable of determining the total inorganic arsenic concentration in water samples in a rapid, continuous, reproducible and accurate manner. The approach also precludes the tedious hydride generation methods used in conventional methodologies. By using a chelating agent and Supported Liquid Membrane Extraction (SLME) on a micro-scale platform, we propose to extract and concentrate As from aqueous samples, thus allowing for faster analysis and lower detection limits.