Emerging droplet microfluidics

L Shang, Y Cheng, Y Zhao - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Droplet microfluidics generates and manipulates discrete droplets through immiscible
multiphase flows inside microchannels. Due to its remarkable advantages, droplet …

Active droplet sorting in microfluidics: a review

HD Xi, H Zheng, W Guo, AM Gañán-Calvo, Y Ai… - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The ability to manipulate and sort droplets is a fundamental issue in droplet-based
microfluidics. Various lab-on-a-chip applications can only be realized if droplets are …

High-throughput screening by droplet microfluidics: Perspective into key challenges and future prospects

EM Payne, DA Holland-Moritz, S Sun, RT Kennedy - Lab on a Chip, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
In two decades of development, impressive strides have been made for automating basic
laboratory operations in droplet-based microfluidics, allowing the emergence of a new form …

Droplet microfluidics: from proof-of-concept to real-world utility?

A Suea-Ngam, PD Howes, M Srisa-Art… - Chemical …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Droplet microfluidics constitutes a diverse and practical tool set that enables chemical and
biological experiments to be performed at high speed and with enhanced efficiency when …

Droplet control technologies for microfluidic high throughput screening (μHTS)

M Sesen, T Alan, A Neild - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The transition from micro well plate and robotics based high throughput screening (HTS) to
chip based screening has already started. This transition promises reduced droplet volumes …

Droplet digital microfluidic system for screening filamentous fungi based on enzymatic activity

K Samlali, CL Alves, M Jezernik… - Microsystems & …, 2022 - nature.com
Fungal cell-wall-degrading enzymes have great utility in the agricultural and food industries.
These cell-wall-degrading enzymes are known to have functions that can help defend …

An integrated droplet-digital microfluidic system for on-demand droplet creation, mixing, incubation, and sorting

F Ahmadi, K Samlali, PQN Vo, SCC Shih - Lab on a Chip, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Droplet microfluidics is a technique that has the ability to compartmentalize reactions in sub
nano-(or pico-) liter volumes that can potentially enable millions of distinct biological assays …

Trapping of drops by wetting defects

D 't Mannetje, S Ghosh, R Lagraauw, S Otten… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Controlling the motion of drops on solid surfaces is crucial in many natural phenomena and
technological processes including the collection and removal of rain drops, cleaning …

Droplet manipulations in two phase flow microfluidics

AM Pit, MHG Duits, F Mugele - Micromachines, 2015 - mdpi.com
Even though droplet microfluidics has been developed since the early 1980s, the number of
applications that have resulted in commercial products is still relatively small. This is partly …

Open‐chip droplet splitting in electrowetting

N Sagar, S Bansal, P Sen - Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Electrowetting‐on‐dielectric (EWOD) has emerged as a powerful technique to
perform on‐chip droplet operations like transportation, dispensing, splitting, and mixing in …