Fabrication and applications of microfluidic devices: A review

AG Niculescu, C Chircov, AC Bîrcă… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Microfluidics is a relatively newly emerged field based on the combined principles of
physics, chemistry, biology, fluid dynamics, microelectronics, and material science. Various …

Current and emerging trends in polymeric 3D printed microfluidic devices

G Gonzalez, I Roppolo, CF Pirri, A Chiappone - Additive Manufacturing, 2022 - Elsevier
During the last two decades, 3D printing technology has emerged as a valid alternative for
producing microfluidic devices. 3D printing introduces new strategies to obtain high …

Nature-inspired micropatterns

Y Wang, G Zheng, N Jiang, G Ying, Y Li, X Cai… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Micropatterned materials have developed in nature over 3.8 billion years, with remarkable
performance. Nature inspiration is the process of understanding biological mechanisms and …

Biomedical applications of microfluidic devices: a review

G Gharib, İ Bütün, Z Muganlı, G Kozalak, İ Namlı… - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Both passive and active microfluidic chips are used in many biomedical and chemical
applications to support fluid mixing, particle manipulations, and signal detection. Passive …

Vat photopolymerization 3D printed microfluidic devices for organ-on-a-chip applications

LA Milton, MS Viglione, LJY Ong, GP Nordin, YC Toh - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Organs-on-a-chip, or OoCs, are microfluidic tissue culture devices with micro-scaled
architectures that repeatedly achieve biomimicry of biological phenomena. They are well …

Advanced microfluidic devices for fabricating multi‐structural hydrogel microsphere

Z Chen, Z Lv, Z Zhang, DA Weitz, H Zhang… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogel microspheres are a novel functional material, arousing much attention in various
fields. Microfluidics, a technology that controls and manipulates fluids at the micron scale …

Understanding and improving FDM 3D printing to fabricate high-resolution and optically transparent microfluidic devices

RF Quero, GD da Silveira, JAF da Silva, DP de Jesus - Lab on a Chip, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The fabrication of microfluidic devices through fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D printing
has faced several challenges, mainly regarding obtaining microchannels with suitable …

3D printing: an alternative microfabrication approach with unprecedented opportunities in design

HK Balakrishnan, F Badar, EH Doeven… - Analytical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
In the past decade, 3D printing technologies have been adopted for the fabrication of
microfluidic devices. Extrusion-based approaches including fused filament fabrication (FFF) …

[HTML][HTML] VAT photopolymerization 3D printing optimization of high aspect ratio structures for additive manufacturing of chips towards biomedical applications

A Bucciarelli, X Paolelli, E De Vitis, N Selicato… - Additive …, 2022 - Elsevier
Organ-on-chip and Lab-on-chip are microfluidic devices widely applied in the biomedical
field. They are traditionally produced by soft lithography: starting from a mold fabricated by …

[HTML][HTML] Perspectives in translating microfluidic devices from laboratory prototyping into scale-up production

H Cong, N Zhang - Biomicrofluidics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Transforming lab research into a sustainable business is becoming a trend in the
microfluidic field. However, there are various challenges during the translation process due …