	US 12,453,972 B2
	Microsystem label for sample tubes
Amadou Alpha Sall, Dakar (SN); Cheikh Tidiane Diagne, Dakar (SN); and Sidy Ndao, Lincoln, NE (US)
Assigned to FONDATION INSTITUT PASTEUR DE DAKAR, Dakar (SN)
Appl. No. 17/776,135
Filed by FONDATION INSTITUT PASTEUR DE DAKAR, Dakar (SN)
PCT Filed Nov. 12, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/060251 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 11, 2022, PCT Pub. No. WO2021/097100, PCT Pub. Date May 20, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/934,411, filed on Nov. 12, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0395836 A1, Dec. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. B01L 3/00 (2006.01); B01L 9/06 (2006.01)

CPC B01L 3/5453 (2013.01) [B01L 9/06 (2013.01); B01L 2200/147 (2013.01); B01L 2200/185 (2013.01); B01L 2300/022 (2013.01); B01L 2300/0645 (2013.01); B01L 2300/1827 (2013.01)]

20 Claims

1. A stretchable and wearable microfluidics thin film label for a sample tube, wherein said microfluidics thin film label is capable of being mounted or directly printed on the outside surface of the sample tube, and wherein said label comprises thin film electrical conductors and metal connectors fabricated on-film, and on the connectors: means for individually cooling and heating a test tube; means for measuring the temperature of the test tube; means for monitoring the volume of the sample within the test tube; and means to store sample information,

wherein the means for individually cooling and heating the test tube is a thermoelectric micro-cooler fabricated by depositing p-type Sb₂, Te₃and n-type Bi₂Te₃films via thermal co-evaporation of the constituent elements on the connectors, and the thermoelectric micro-cooler is configured to be mounted so that the means are in contact with the sample tube outside wall.