Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplifies specific fragment of DNA molecules and has
been extensively applied in fields of pathogens and gene mutation detection, food safety …

The advent of glass-based microfluidic devices further revolutionized in microfluidic
technology due to the several advantageous properties in terms of photonics, electronics …

This review summarizes recent developments in microfluidic platform approaches. In
contrast to isolated application-specific solutions, a microfluidic platform provides a set of …

This paper describes a procedure that makes it possible to design and fabricate (including
sealing) microfluidic systems in an elastomeric material poly (dimethylsiloxane)(PDMS) in …

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

▪ Abstract Soft lithography, a set of techniques for microfabrication, is based on printing and
molding using elastomeric stamps with the patterns of interest in bas-relief. As a technique …

▪ Abstract Fluid flow at the microscale exhibits unique phenomena that can be leveraged to
fabricate devices and components capable of performing functions useful for biological …

We survey progress over the past 25 years in the development of microscale devices for
pumping fluids. We attempt to provide both a reference for micropump researchers and a …

The area of micro total analysis systems, also called “lab on a chip”, or miniaturized analysis
systems, is growing rapidly. Since the excellent research documented in many publications …

Recent years have seen considerable progress in the development of microfabricated
systems for use in the chemical and biological sciences. Much development has been …