Microfluidics and Raman microscopy: current applications and future challenges

AF Chrimes, K Khoshmanesh, PR Stoddart… - Chemical Society …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Raman microscopy systems are becoming increasingly widespread and accessible for
characterising chemical species. Microfluidic systems are also progressively finding their …

Directional droplet transport on functional surfaces with superwettabilities

P Lv, YL Zhang, DD Han, HB Sun - Advanced Materials …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Directional droplet transport on smart surfaces with superwettabilities arouse extensive
attentions from both the scientific community and industry due to the exciting applications in …

Direct writing on paper of foldable capacitive touch pads with silver nanowire inks

RZ Li, A Hu, T Zhang, KD Oakes - ACS applied materials & …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Paper-based capacitive touch pads can be fabricated utilizing high-concentration silver
nanowire inks needle-printed directly onto paper substrates through a 2D programmable …

DropBot: An open-source digital microfluidic control system with precise control of electrostatic driving force and instantaneous drop velocity measurement

R Fobel, C Fobel, AR Wheeler - Applied Physics Letters, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We introduce DropBot: an open-source instrument for digital microfluidics
(http://microfluidics. utoronto. ca/dropbot). DropBot features two key functionalities for digital …

Combining sensors and actuators with electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD): advanced digital microfluidic systems for biomedical applications

Z Tong, C Shen, Q Li, H Yin, H Mao - Analyst, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The concept of digital microfluidics (DMF) enables highly flexible and precise droplet
manipulation at a picoliter scale, making DMF a promising approach to realize integrated …

A digital microfluidic diluter-based microalgal motion biosensor for marine pollution monitoring

S Han, Q Zhang, X Zhang, X Liu, L Lu, J Wei… - Biosensors and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Marine pollution and monitoring have received more and more concern in recent years.
Herein, a fully automatic whole-algae biosensor was designed for low-cost and fast …

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 …

An open-source compiler and PCB synthesis tool for digital microfluidic biochips

D Grissom, C Curtis, S Windh, C Phung… - INTEGRATION, the VLSI …, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper describes a publicly available, open source software framework designed to
support research efforts on algorithms and control for digital microfluidic biochips (DMFBs) …

Compact nanowire sensors probe microdroplets

J Schütt, B Ibarlucea, R Illing, F Zörgiebel… - Nano Letters, 2016 - ACS Publications
The conjunction of miniature nanosensors and droplet-based microfluidic systems
conceptually opens a new route toward sensitive, optics-less analysis of biochemical …

An intelligent digital microfluidic system with fuzzy-enhanced feedback for multi-droplet manipulation

J Gao, X Liu, T Chen, PI Mak, Y Du, MI Vai, B Lin… - Lab on a Chip, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The complexity of droplet hydrodynamics on a digital microfluidic (DMF) system eventually
weakens its potential for application in large-scale chemical/biological micro-reactors. We …