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A Parametric Study on a Paper-Based Bi-Material Cantilever Valve

Micromachines 2022, 13(9), 1502; https://doi.org/10.3390/mi13091502
by Hojat Heidari-Bafroui *, Ashutosh Kumar, Amer Charbaji, Winfield Smith, Nassim Rahmani, Constantine Anagnostopoulos and Mohammad Faghri *
Reviewer 1:
Reviewer 2:
Micromachines 2022, 13(9), 1502; https://doi.org/10.3390/mi13091502
Submission received: 10 August 2022 / Revised: 5 September 2022 / Accepted: 8 September 2022 / Published: 9 September 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Micro- and Nano-Systems for Manipulation, Actuation and Sensing)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This paper reports about the paper-based cantilever which can be utilized for biological and chemical sensing applications. Here, an extensive parametric study is presented to see the effects of geometric parameters. However, the manuscript is not well-prepared and requires a complete revision.

Detailed comments are as follows:

1.       What are the reliability aspects of paper-based devices? Please incorporate in the manuscript.

2.       Please highlight the novelty aspects of the present research work in the manuscript.

3.       Provide a comparative table/chart and compare these results with state-of-art microfluidic paper-based analytical devices.

4.       Figure 4: What is the meaning of (*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01), not clear?

5.       Figure14. figure caption should be elaborated.

6.       How does the wetted length of cantilevers was measured/estimated?

7.       Consider the design aspect of paper-based cantilevers and incorporate in the manuscript.

Author Response

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Reviewer 2 Report

My comments are attached as pdf.

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Author Response

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments are answered satisfactorily and may be published.

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