Microfluidics for biosynthesizing: from droplets and vesicles to artificial cells

Y Ai, R Xie, J Xiong, Q Liang - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Fabrication of artificial biomimetic materials has attracted abundant attention. As one of the
subcategories of biomimetic materials, artificial cells are highly significant for multiple …

Novel pumping methods for microfluidic devices: a comprehensive review

AP Iakovlev, AS Erofeev, PV Gorelkin - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
This review is an account of methods that use various strategies to control microfluidic flow
control with high accuracy. The reviewed systems are divided into two large groups based …

Microfluidic synthesis control technology and its application in drug delivery, bioimaging, biosensing, environmental analysis and cell analysis

CT Kung, H Gao, CY Lee, YN Wang, W Dong… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Nanomaterials have attracted significant attention in biomedical and environmental science
in recent years due to their unique thermal, optical, electrical and magnetic properties. The …

Microfluidic method–based encapsulated phase change materials: Fundamentals, progress, and prospects

W Gao, F Liu, C Yu, Y Chen, X Liu - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Encapsulating phase change materials (PCMs) in protective shells can reversibly absorb
and release large amounts of heat within a narrow range of operating temperatures and …

Controlled microfluidic encapsulation of phase change material for thermo-regulation

G Hao, C Yu, Y Chen, X Liu, Y Chen - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, a facile microfluidic approach for controllable encapsulation of phase change
material is presented to fabricate robust PCM capsules. The multilayer graphene is also …

Droplet microfluidics for tumor drug‐related studies and programmable artificial cells

P Dimitriou, J Li, G Tornillo, T McCloy… - Global …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Anticancer drug development is a crucial step toward cancer treatment, that requires realistic
predictions of malignant tissue development and sophisticated drug delivery. Tumors often …

Integration of deep reinforcement learning to simple microfluidic system toward intelligent control: Demonstration of simultaneous microbeads manipulation

T Abe, S Oh-hara, Y Ukita - Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, we report a novel intelligent microfluidic system that realizes automated
micromanipulation of particles in a two-dimensional plane. The system manipulates particles …

[HTML][HTML] A review for cell-based screening methods in drug discovery

F Wei, S Wang, X Gou - Biophysics Reports, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
With the biological relevance of the whole cells, low cost compared with animal experiments,
a wide variety of cell-based screening platforms (cell-based assay, cell-based microfluidics …

Microencapsulation of solid cores to prepare double emulsion droplets by microfluidics

W Gao, Y Chen - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2019 - Elsevier
We herein present an effective microfluidic method based on facile glass capillary assembly
for encapsulating solid cores to prepare double emulsions. Visualization experiments are …

Melting heat transfer enhancement of a horizontal latent heat storage unit by fern-fractal fins

Z Deng, S Wu, H Xu, Y Chen - Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
The latent heat storage (LHS) technique is of crucial importance in chemical energy
engineering. Inspired by multi-bifurcated fern leaves, a mimic fern-fractal fin is designed to …