Organ-on-a-chip: Recent breakthroughs and future prospects

Q Wu, J Liu, X Wang, L Feng, J Wu, X Zhu… - Biomedical engineering …, 2020 - Springer
The organ-on-a-chip (OOAC) is in the list of top 10 emerging technologies and refers to a
physiological organ biomimetic system built on a microfluidic chip. Through a combination of …

Skin-interfaced systems for sweat collection and analytics

J Choi, R Ghaffari, LB Baker, JA Rogers - Science advances, 2018 - science.org
Recent interdisciplinary advances in materials, mechanics, and microsystem designs for
biocompatible electronics, soft microfluidics, and electrochemical biosensors establish the …

Smartphone-based analytical biosensors

X Huang, D Xu, J Chen, J Liu, Y Li, J Song, X Ma… - Analyst, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The traditional analytical biosensor instruments are relatively bulky, expensive, and not easy
to handle, thus their applications are largely limited in resource-limited settings. The recent …

Electrospinning: A fascinating fiber fabrication technique

N Bhardwaj, SC Kundu - Biotechnology advances, 2010 - Elsevier
With the emergence of nanotechnology, researchers become more interested in studying
the unique properties of nanoscale materials. Electrospinning, an electrostatic fiber …

Recent advances in properties and applications of nanoporous materials and porous carbons

E Kianfar, H Sayadi - Carbon Letters, 2022 - Springer
Nonporous materials have nano-sized pores. High specific surface area and size and shape
selectivity (size and shape Selectivity) are the most important features of these materials that …

Biomedical microfluidic devices by using low-cost fabrication techniques: A review

V Faustino, SO Catarino, R Lima, G Minas - Journal of biomechanics, 2016 - Elsevier
One of the most popular methods to fabricate biomedical microfluidic devices is by using a
soft-lithography technique. However, the fabrication of the moulds to produce microfluidic …

Chitin and chitosan: Properties and applications

M Rinaudo - Progress in polymer science, 2006 - Elsevier
Chitin is the second most important natural polymer in the world. The main sources exploited
are two marine crustaceans, shrimp and crabs. Our objective is to appraise the state of the …

Microfluidics: Fluid physics at the nanoliter scale

TM Squires, SR Quake - Reviews of modern physics, 2005 - APS
Microfabricated integrated circuits revolutionized computation by vastly reducing the space,
labor, and time required for calculations. Microfluidic systems hold similar promise for the …

Physics and applications of microfluidics in biology

DJ Beebe, GA Mensing… - Annual review of …, 2002 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Fluid flow at the microscale exhibits unique phenomena that can be leveraged to
fabricate devices and components capable of performing functions useful for biological …

Biomaterials: where we have been and where we are going

BD Ratner, SJ Bryant - Annu. Rev. Biomed. Eng., 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Since its inception just over a half century ago, the field of biomaterials has seen a
consistent growth with a steady introduction of new ideas and productive branches. This …