UNamur
" The goal is to solve one of the shortage in the COVID19 diagnostic since the lack of this specific sampling equipment also seriously impedes the diagnostic capacity. 3D printing technologies and coatings deposited by low pressure plasma are applied to develop new generation of swabs and collection tubes. The general purpose for the swabs is to optimize the design in order to maximize the collection and minimize the pain. This involves design of swab tip cavity by fluid mecanic and 3D CAD/CAM, roughness adpatation, plasma surface treatement, surface energy evaluation, wettability evaluation of nasopharyngeal samples, sampling performance by housekeeping gene evaluation (GaPDH ), ..... The general comfort of usage of various designs is also evaluated on humans. The general purpose for the collection tube is to accomodate the new swabs, but also to minimize the number of operation post-sampling. Also, opening the tube and transfer of the content to eppendorf in one single operation without the need of pipetting is targeted. "
Contact: Prof. S. Lucas, University of Namur, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Prof. B. Muylkens, University of Namur, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.