Digital Thermometer for Giant Unilamellar Vesicles Electroformation Devices

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https://doi.org/10.61164/gvsvce49

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Temperature measurement, Temperature control , Biophysics , Biomembranes

Abstract

This work describes the development of a multichannel digital thermometer to validate the temperature control of giant unilamellar vesicle (GUVs) electroformation equipment. The prototype presented was built with cheap and conventional resources, such as elements and circuits from the Arduino open-source platform and negative temperature coefficient (NTC) thermistors, resulting in equipment with good precision, low production cost and easy maintenance. The device allows temperature measurement in four channels simultaneously and records the values on the computer for temporal evaluation. This equipment was essential in the process of creating a GUV electroforming device discussed elsewhere, but there are several possibilities for application in the research and development of other temperature-dependent technologies. In particular, the device allowed the development of the GUV electroformation protocol by identifying the delay process caused by positioning the thermometer outside the studied sample.

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  • Juracy Leandro dos Santos Júnior, Federal University of Goiás

    Mestre em Engenharia de Computação, Discente do Programa de Pós-graduação em Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação da Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brasil 

  • Sebastião Antônio Mendanha , Federal University of Goiás

    Doutor em Física, Instituto de Física da Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brasil

  • Marcus Carrião dos Santos, Federal University of Goiás

    Doutor em Física, Instituto de Física da Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brasil

  • Sílvio Leão Vieira, Federal University of Goiás

    É graduado em Eletrônica pelo Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Bahia, bacharel em Física pela Universidade Federal da Bahia e mestre e doutor em Física Aplicada à Medicina e Biologia pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP-Ribeirão Preto). Realizou parte do seu doutorado no Departamento de Engenharia Biomédica da Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, Estados Unidos, e pós-doutorado em física aplicada no Instituto de Física da USP/SP. É professor associado do Instituto de Física e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação da Universidade Federal de Goiás. Tem experiência em Física e Física Médica, com ênfase em instrumentação eletrônica e controle de sistemas e sinais biomédicos. Seus interesses de pesquisa incluem o desenvolvimento de materiais simuladores de tecidos (phantoms) para imagens médicas, elastografia por ressonância magnética (atuadores, controle e processamento de imagens) e aplicações de acústica (ultrassom) nas áreas biomédica e industrial.

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2026-02-09

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Digital Thermometer for Giant Unilamellar Vesicles Electroformation Devices. (2026). REMUNOM, 2(01), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.61164/gvsvce49