Microfabricated integrated circuits revolutionized computation by vastly reducing the space,
labor, and time required for calculations. Microfluidic systems hold similar promise for the …

This Account summarizes techniques for fabrication and applications in biomedicine of
microfluidic devices fabricated in poly (dimethylsiloxane)(PDMS). The methods and …

Clinical diagnostics is one of the most promising applications for microfluidic lab-on-a-chip
systems, especially in a point-of-care setting. Conventional microfluidic devices are usually …

The serviceability of microfluidics-based instrumentation including 'lab-on-a-chip'systems
critically depends on control of fluid motion. We are reporting here an alternative approach …

We describe the general phenomenon of 'induced-charge electro-osmosis'(ICEO)–the
nonlinear electro-osmotic slip that occurs when an applied field acts on the ionic charge it …

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) was introduced at the beginning of the 1990s as
an alternative to prenatal diagnosis, to prevent termination of pregnancy in couples with a …

Significant advances have been made in the development of micro-scale technologies for
biomedical and drug discovery applications. The first generation of microfluidics-based …

This review gives an overview of developments in the field of microchip analysis for clinical
diagnostic and forensic applications. The approach chosen to review the literature is …

A currently emerging approach enables more widespread monitoring of health parameters
in disease prevention and biomarker monitoring. Miniaturisation provides the means for the …

Building on our recent work on induced-charge electro-osmosis (ICEO) and electrophoresis
(ICEP), as well as the Russian literature on spherical metal colloids, we examine the rich …