[HTML][HTML] Droplet microfluidics for microbiology: techniques, applications and challenges

TS Kaminski, O Scheler, P Garstecki - Lab on a Chip, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Droplet microfluidics has rapidly emerged as one of the key technologies opening up new
experimental possibilities in microbiology. The ability to generate, manipulate and monitor …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in droplet-based microfluidic technologies for biochemistry and molecular biology

J Sánchez Barea, J Lee, DK Kang - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Recently, droplet-based microfluidic systems have been widely used in various biochemical
and molecular biological assays. Since this platform technique allows manipulation of large …

[HTML][HTML] Dendronized fluorosurfactant for highly stable water-in-fluorinated oil emulsions with minimal inter-droplet transfer of small molecules

MS Chowdhury, W Zheng, S Kumari, J Heyman… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Fluorosurfactant-stabilized microfluidic droplets are widely used as pico-to nanoliter volume
reactors in chemistry and biology. However, current surfactants cannot completely prevent …

Acoustofluidic synthesis of particulate nanomaterials

PH Huang, S Zhao, H Bachman, N Nama… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Synthesis of nanoparticles and particulate nanomaterials with tailored properties is a central
step toward many applications ranging from energy conversion and imaging/display to …

Efficient one‐step production of microencapsulated hepatocyte spheroids with enhanced functions

HF Chan, Y Zhang, KW Leong - Small, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Hepatocyte spheroids microencapsulated in hydrogels can contribute to liver research in
various capacities. The conventional approach of microencapsulating spheroids produces a …

Recent advances in perfluorocarbon-based delivery systems for cancer theranostics

Y Yang, Y Liu, Y Jiang - Molecular Pharmaceutics, 2023 - ACS Publications
Hypoxia is a key impediment encountered in the treatment of most solid tumors, leading to
immune escape and therapeutic resistance. Perfluorocarbons (PFCs) have a unique …

Silica‐based liquid marbles as microreactors for the silver mirror reaction

Y Sheng, G Sun, J Wu, G Ma, T Ngai - Angewandte Chemie, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Little attention has been paid to the participation of the shell of silica‐particle‐based liquid
marbles and their influence on chemical reactions. The fabrication of liquid marbles with the …

Tailored fluorosurfactants through controlled/living radical polymerization for highly stable microfluidic droplet generation

X Li, SY Tang, Y Zhang, J Zhu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Droplet‐based microfluidics represents a disruptive technology in the field of chemistry and
biology through the generation and manipulation of sub‐microlitre droplets. To avoid droplet …

Discovery in droplets

AK Price, BM Paegel - Analytical chemistry, 2016 - ACS Publications
In the summer of 2009, Daniel Chiu's prescient review in Analytical Chemistry described
droplet microfluidics, an emerging concept and malleable analytical tool. 1 The review …

An integrated chip-mass spectrometry and epifluorescence approach for online monitoring of bioactive metabolites from incubated Actinobacteria in picoliter droplets

K Wink, L Mahler, JR Beulig, SK Piendl, M Roth… - Analytical and …, 2018 - Springer
We present a lab-on-a-chip approach for the analysis of secondary metabolites produced in
microfluidic droplets by simultaneous epifluorescence microscopy and electrospray …