A review of optical imaging technologies for microfluidics

P Zhou, H He, H Ma, S Wang, S Hu - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Microfluidics can precisely control and manipulate micro-scale fluids, and are also known as
lab-on-a-chip or micro total analysis systems. Microfluidics have huge application potential …

Optics-integrated microfluidic platforms for biomolecular analyses

KE Bates, H Lu - Biophysical journal, 2016 - cell.com
Compared with conventional optical methods, optics implemented on microfluidic chips
provide small, and often much cheaper ways to interrogate biological systems from the level …

Measuring interfacial polymerization kinetics using microfluidic interferometry

A Nowbahar, V Mansard, JM Mecca… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
A range of academic and industrial fields exploit interfacial polymerization in producing
fibers, capsules, and films. Although widely used, measurements of reaction kinetics remain …

Heterogeneity and its Influence on the Properties of Difunctional Poly (ethylene glycol) Hydrogels: Structure and Mechanics

P Malo de Molina, S Lad, ME Helgeson - Macromolecules, 2015 - ACS Publications
Difunctional polymer hydrogels, such as those prepared from poly (ethylene glycol)
diacrylate (PEGDA) macromers, are widely used for a number of potential applications in …

CO2 Laser Ablation of Microchannel on PMMA Substrate for Effective Fabrication of Microfluidic Chips

X Chen, T Li, J Shen - International Polymer Processing, 2016 - degruyter.com
This paper reports a simple and rapid method for fabrication of microfluidic chips on
polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) substrate using a flexible and low-cost CO2 laser system …

Multiscale porosity microfluidics to study bacterial transport in heterogeneous chemical landscapes

MM Salek, F Carrara, J Zhou, R Stocker… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Microfluidic models are proving to be powerful systems to study fundamental processes in
porous media, due to their ability to replicate topologically complex environments while …

How does the polymer type affect the rate of water evaporation from polymer solutions?

M Tanaka, S Inasawa - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
Drying of aqueous polymer solutions is widely used to form polymer films. However, we do
not fully understand how concentrated polymer near the drying interfaces decreases the rate …

Twisted light Michelson interferometer for high precision refractive index measurements

NM Kerschbaumer, LI Fochler, M Reichenspurner… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Using orbital angular momentum beams in a Michelson interferometer opens the possibility
for non-invasive measurements of refractive index changes down to 10^− 6 refractive index …

Microfluidic free interface diffusion: Measurement of diffusion coefficients and evidence of interfacial-driven transport phenomena

HT Nguyen, A Bouchaudy, JB Salmon - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We have developed a microfluidic tool to measure the diffusion coefficient D of solutes in an
aqueous solution by following the temporal relaxation of an initially steep concentration …

Optofluidic lens with low spherical and low field curvature aberrations

HT Zhao, Y Yang, LK Chin, HF Chen, WM Zhu… - Lab on a Chip, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
This paper reports an optofluidic lens with low spherical and low field curvature aberrations
through the desired refractive index profile by precisely controlling the mixing between …