Owing to their structural advantages in comparison with bulk polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS),
porous 3D substrates, which are also known as PDMS sponges, possess immense potential …

To obtain protein crystals, researchers must search for conditions in multidimensional
chemical space. Empirically, thousands of crystallization experiments are carried out to …

The SlipChip is a microfluidic device designed to perform multiplexed microfluidic reactions
without pumps or valves. The device has two plates in close contact. The bottom plate …

The field of micro total analysis systems (μTAS), or “lab on a chip”, has continued to gain
maturity. The importance of μTAS is reflected in both the growing number and the improved …

Microfluidics offers a wide range of new tools that permit one to revisit the formation of
crystals in solution and yield insights into crystallization processes. We review such recent …

Separation and purification of biomacromolecules either in biopharmaceuticals and fine
chemicals manufacturing, or in diagnostics and biological characterization, can substantially …

Suitable pumping methods for flow control remain a major technical hurdle in the path of
biomedical microfluidic systems for point-of-care (POC) diagnostics. A vacuum-driven power …

Microfluidics is a multidisciplinary field of science based on the manipulation of fluids in sub-
millimeter dimensions where the fundamental fluid physics changes dramatically when …

Spatially defined arrays of droplets differ from bulk emulsions in that droplets in arrays can
be indexed on the basis of one or more spatial variables to enable identification, monitoring …

A device is described having a first surface having a plurality of first areas and a second
surface having a plurality of second areas. The first surface and the second surface are …