Wearable sensors hold great potential in empowering personalized health monitoring,
predictive analytics, and timely intervention toward personalized healthcare. Advances in …

Abstract Organs-on-chips (OoCs) are systems containing engineered or natural miniature
tissues grown inside microfluidic chips. To better mimic human physiology, the chips are …

Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is hailed as one of the foundational materials for microfluidics.
Though a silicone‐based elastomer of many desirable properties, the emergence of …

Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is the predominant material used for organ-on-a-chip devices
and microphysiological systems (MPSs) due to its ease-of-use, elasticity, optical …

Rapid progress in micro-and nanotechnologies such as lab-on-a-chip (microfluidic
networks, sensors, actuators, and connectors), soft lithography (replica moulding …

Organ-on-a-chip systems are miniaturized microfluidic 3D human tissue and organ models
designed to recapitulate the important biological and physiological parameters of their in …

The amount of nano-and microplastic in the aquatic environment rises due to the industrial
production of plastic and the degradation of plastic into smaller particles. Concerns have …

Culture of cells using various microfluidic devices is becoming more common within
experimental cell biology. At the same time, a technological radiation of microfluidic cell …

The polymer polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is widely used to build microfluidic devices
compatible with cell culture. Whilst convenient in manufacture, PDMS has the disadvantage …

We review the emergence of the new field of organ-on-a-chip (OOAC) engineering, from the
parent fields of tissue engineering and microfluidics. We place into perspective the tools and …