Thermal droplet microfluidics: From biology to cooling technology

A Khater, O Abdelrehim, M Mohammadi… - TrAC Trends in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Droplet microfluidic platforms have been developed to produce mono-dispersed
microdroplets and provided substanial progress in many chemical, biological, and …

Accurate and efficient droplet microfluidic strategy for controlling the morphology of energetic microspheres

J Zhou, B Wu, M Wang, S Liu, Z Xie, C An… - Journal of Energetic …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
An effective method is proposed for preparing energetic microspheres by fluid-focusing
microchannels. This method combines the advantages of low reagent consumption …

Benchmarking YOLOv5 and YOLOv7 models with DeepSORT for droplet tracking applications

M Durve, S Orsini, A Tiribocchi, A Montessori… - The European Physical …, 2023 - Springer
Tracking droplets in microfluidics is a challenging task. The difficulty arises in choosing a
tool to analyze general microfluidic videos to infer physical quantities. The state-of-the-art …

Continuous gradient temperature control of microfluidic chip based on thermoelectric cooler

Z Liu, D Sun, B Jiang, L Shen, P Zhou, C Gao… - Applied Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
High-efficiency and accurate temperature control is the key to the application of microfluidic
technology in biology, chemistry and medicine fields. At present, gradient temperature …

Regulation of droplet size and flow regime by geometrical confinement in a microfluidic flow-focusing device

SG Sontti, A Atta - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We have developed a coupled level set and volume of fluid-based computational fluid
dynamics model to analyze the droplet formation mechanism in a square flow-focusing …

Droplet-based lab-on-chip platform integrated with laser ablated graphene heaters to synthesize gold nanoparticles for electrochemical sensing and fuel cell …

S Srikanth, S Dudala, US Jayapiriya, JM Mohan… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Controlled, stable and uniform temperature environment with quick response are crucial
needs for many lab-on-chip (LOC) applications requiring thermal management. Laser …

Numerical analysis on the effects of microfluidic-based bioprinting parameters on the microfiber geometrical outcomes

A Zaeri, R Zgeib, K Cao, F Zhang, RC Chang - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The application of microfluidics technology in additive manufacturing is an emerging
approach that makes possible the fabrication of functional three-dimensional cell-laden …

Droplet Surface Immunoassay by Relocation (D-SIRe) for High-Throughput Analysis of Cytosolic Proteins at the Single-Cell Level

R Dufossez, S Ursuegui, S Baudrey, K Pernod… - Analytical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is a central analytic method in biological
science for the detection of proteins. Introduction of droplet-based microfluidics allowed the …

Exploiting flow manipulation to engineer the electroactive phase for improved piezo response in size tunable PVDF microspheres via microfluidic technology

A Rohal, R Garg, S Choudhury, MM Devi… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), a semi-crystalline polymer with remarkable piezo-, ferro-,
and pyroelectric properties in its electroactive phase (EA), holds significant potential …

Evaporation-driven directed motion of droplets on the glass

K Nuthalapati, YJ Sheng, HK Tsao - Surfaces and Interfaces, 2023 - Elsevier
Manipulating and guiding the droplet movement on a substrate by vapor-mediated actuation
is a new approach for microfluidic devices. In this work, the evaporation-driven self …