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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 23.
Published in final edited form as: Ind Eng Chem Res. 2021 Oct 27;60(44):15874–15884. doi: 10.1021/acs.iecr.1c02868

Figure 3.

Figure 3.

(a) Image of the paperfuge tool, (b) paper disks with loaded capillary tubes, (c) usage of paperfuge, and (d) blood separation over 2 min of usage. (e) While both traditional centrifuges and the paperfuge leverage centrifugal force, the difference lies in the fact that the Paperfuge uses the mechanism of a whirligig to produce the necessary rotational force. [Reproduced (or adapted) with permission from ref 23. Copyright 2017, Springer Nature.]