Flexible microfluidics: Fundamentals, recent developments, and applications

H Fallahi, J Zhang, HP Phan, NT Nguyen - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Miniaturization has been the driving force of scientific and technological advances over
recent decades. Recently, flexibility has gained significant interest, particularly in …

A review of recent studies on piezoelectric pumps and their applications

H Li, J Liu, K Li, Y Liu - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2021 - Elsevier
Piezoelectric pumps have obtained considerable significance and have become the focus
area of research for biomedicine, fuel supply, liquid cooling, chemistry and precision driving …

PDMS microfabrication and design for microfluidics and sustainable energy application

L Lin, CK Chung - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
The polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is popular for wide application in various fields of
microfluidics, microneedles, biology, medicine, chemistry, optics, electronics, architecture …

MEMS actuators for biomedical applications: a review

FAM Ghazali, MN Hasan, T Rehman… - Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Micro-electromechanical-system (MEMS) based actuators, which transduce certain
domains of energy into mechanical movements in the microscopic scale, are increasingly …

A review of peristaltic micropumps

F Forouzandeh, A Arevalo, A Alfadhel… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2021 - Elsevier
This report presents a review of progress on peristaltic micropumps since their emergence,
which have been widely used in many research fields from biology to aeronautics. This …

Piezoelectric micropumps: State of the art review

H Asadi Dereshgi, H Dal, MZ Yildiz - Microsystem Technologies, 2021 - Springer
The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of problems and some research gaps for
better understanding of piezoelectric micropump studies. Micropumps have important and …

[HTML][HTML] Application of microfluidic technology based on surface-enhanced Raman scattering in cancer biomarker detection: A review

C Nie, I Shaw, C Chen - Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis, 2023 - Elsevier
With the continuous discovery and research of predictive cancer-related biomarkers, liquid
biopsy shows great potential in cancer diagnosis. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering …

Microfluidic systems for particle capture and release: A review

L Gong, A Cretella, Y Lin - Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2023 - Elsevier
Microfluidic technology has emerged as a promising tool in various applications, including
biosensing, disease diagnosis, and environmental monitoring. One of the notable features of …

Advances in valveless piezoelectric pumps

Q Yan, Y Yin, W Sun, J Fu - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Piezoelectric pump design is regarded as a hot research topic in the microfluidic field, and
has been applied in liquid cooling, precision machinery and other relevant domains. The …

Electro-osmosis modulated periodic membrane pumping flow and particle motion with magnetic field effects

DS Bhandari, D Tripathi, O Anwar Bég - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Theoretical studies of micro-electro-mechanical systems provide important insight into the
mechanisms and optimization of such devices for a range of applications, including …