[HTML][HTML] 30 years of microfluidics

N Convery, N Gadegaard - Micro and Nano Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Microfluidics provides a great opportunity to create devices capable of outperforming
classical techniques in biomedical and chemical research. In this review, the origins of this …

[HTML][HTML] Emulsion characterization via microfluidic devices: A review on interfacial tension and stability to coalescence

TM Ho, A Razzaghi, A Ramachandran… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Emulsions have gained significant importance in many industries including foods,
pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, health care formulations, paints, polymer blends and oils …

Polymer microfluidics: Simple, low-cost fabrication process bridging academic lab research to commercialized production

CW Tsao - Micromachines, 2016 - mdpi.com
Using polymer materials to fabricate microfluidic devices provides simple, cost effective, and
disposal advantages for both lab-on-a-chip (LOC) devices and micro total analysis systems …

Fibers for hearts: A critical review on electrospinning for cardiac tissue engineering

M Kitsara, O Agbulut, D Kontziampasis, Y Chen… - Acta biomaterialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Cardiac cell therapy holds a real promise for improving heart function and especially of the
chronically failing myocardium. Embedding cells into 3D biodegradable scaffolds may better …

Enabling microfluidics: from clean rooms to makerspaces

DI Walsh, DS Kong, SK Murthy, PA Carr - Trends in biotechnology, 2017 - cell.com
The traditional requirement for clean rooms and specialized skills has inhibited many
biologists from pursuing new microfluidic innovations. Makerspaces provide a growing …

[HTML][HTML] Bio-functionalization of microfluidic platforms made of thermoplastic materials: A review

A Shakeri, NA Jarad, S Khan, TF Didar - Analytica Chimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
As a result of their favorable physical and chemical characteristics, thermoplastics have
garnered significant interest in the area of microfluidics. The moldable nature of these …

Microfluidics: recent advances toward lab‐on‐chip applications in bioanalysis

B Sharma, A Sharma - Advanced engineering materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Microfluidics is an emerging technology of flow and control of fluids in microscale volume
that offers highly specialized solutions to rapid, sensitive, noninvasive analysis and …

The lab-on-PCB approach: tackling the μTAS commercial upscaling bottleneck

D Moschou, A Tserepi - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Commercialization of lab-on-a-chip devices is currently the “holy grail” within the μTAS
research community. While a wide variety of highly sophisticated chips which could …

Recent advances in thread-based microfluidics for diagnostic applications

X Weng, Y Kang, Q Guo, B Peng, H Jiang - Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2019 - Elsevier
Over the past decades, researchers have been seeking attractive substrate materials to
keep microfluidics improving to outbalance the drawbacks and issues. Cellulose substrates …

Heart on a chip: micro-nanofabrication and microfluidics steering the future of cardiac tissue engineering

M Kitsara, D Kontziampasis, O Agbulut… - Microelectronic …, 2019 - Elsevier
The evolution of micro and nanofabrication approaches significantly spurred the
advancements of cardiac tissue engineering over the last decades. Engineering in the micro …