Electrowetting-based digital microfluidics: Toward a full-functional miniaturized platform for biochemical and biological applications

X Liu, D Ma, H Ye, Y Hou, X Bai, Y Xing… - TrAC Trends in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Digital microfluidics, with a distinctive manner of droplet actuation via electrowetting on
individually addressable electrodes, has made tremendous scientific and technical …

[HTML][HTML] Electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD): Current perspectives and applications in ensuring food safety

SR Barman, I Khan, S Chatterjee, S Saha… - Journal of Food and …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Digital microfluidic (DMF) platforms have contributed immensely to the development of
multifunctional lab-on-chip systems for performing complete sets of biological and analytical …

Environmental footprint analysis of gold recycling from electronic waste: A comparative life cycle analysis

Y He, H Hosseinzadeh-Bandbafha… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
While e-waste poses significant environmental and health risks, it also harbors valuable
metals like gold, ripe for recycling. However, extracting gold from e-waste carries its own …

Sensitive, rapid, and automated detection of DNA methylation based on digital microfluidics

Q Ruan, F Zou, Y Wang, Y Zhang, X Xu… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Biomarkers based on DNA methylation have attracted wide attention in biomedical research
due to their potential clinical value. Therefore, a sensitive and accurate method for DNA …

Design of an open electrowetting on dielectric device based on printed circuit board by using a parafilm m

Z Yi, H Feng, X Zhou, L Shui - Frontiers in Physics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, the open electrowetting on dielectric (EWOD) device has been widely used
in biomedical detection, chemical synthesis analysis, and so on. However, the cost of using …

Effect of electrode geometry on droplet velocity in open EWOD based device for digital microfluidics applications

V Jain, V Devarasetty, R Patrikar - Journal of Electrostatics, 2017 - Elsevier
Electro wetting-on-dielectric (EWOD) is an emerging method for handling droplet motion by
applying an electric field to an array of electrodes. The dependence of droplet velocities on …

Development and characterisation of acoustofluidic devices using detachable electrodes made from PCB

R Mikhaylov, F Wu, H Wang, A Clayton, C Sun, Z Xie… - Lab on a Chip, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Acoustofluidics has been increasingly applied in biology, medicine and chemistry due to its
versatility in manipulating fluids, cells and nano-/micro-particles. In this paper, we develop a …

Materials and Manufacturing Methods for EWOD Devices: Current Status and Sustainability Challenges

O Caro‐Pérez, J Casals‐Terré… - Macromolecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Electrowetting‐on‐dielectric (EWOD) devices have proven to be effective tools for
precise microfluidic manipulation or in liquid lenses that surpass conventional solid lenses …

Expanding the limits towards 'one-pot'DNA assembly and transformation on a rapid-prototype microfluidic device

JM Perry, G Soffer, R Jain, SCC Shih - Lab on a Chip, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
DNA assembly and transformation are crucial to the building process in synthetic biology.
These steps are significant roadblocks when engineering increasingly complex biological …

Designing splicing digital microfluidics chips based on polytetrafluoroethylene membrane

H Feng, Z Yi, R Yang, X Qin, S Shen, W Zeng, L Shui… - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
As a laboratory-on-a-chip application tool, digital microfluidics (DMF) technology is widely
used in DNA-based applications, clinical diagnosis, chemical synthesis, and other fields …