Several gallium-based liquid metal alloys are liquid at room temperature. As 'liquid', such
alloys have a low viscosity and a high surface tension while as 'metal', they have high …

Centrifugal microfluidics has evolved into a mature technology. Several major diagnostic
companies either have products on the market or are currently evaluating centrifugal …

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

Microfluidic devices for manipulating fluids are widespread and finding uses in many
scientific and industrial contexts. Their design often requires unusual geometries and the …

The centrifugal microfluidic platform has been a focus of academic and industrial research
efforts for almost 40 years. Primarily targeting biomedical applications, a range of assays …

This review gives a brief overview of microvalves, and focuses on the actuation mechanisms
and their applications. One of the stumbling blocks for successful miniaturization and …

Polymers have assumed the leading role as substrate materials for microfluidic devices in
recent years. They offer a broad range of material parameters as well as material and …

“With the fundamentals of microscale flow and species transport well developed, the recent
trend in microfluidics has been to work towards the development of integrated devices which …

In this paper, centrifuge-based microfluidic platforms are reviewed and compared with other
popular microfluidic propulsion methods. The underlying physical principles of centrifugal …

In recent years, the biological and biomedical applications of micro-and nanotechnology
(commonly referred to as Biomedical or Biological Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems …