Microfluidic-assisted fabrication of carriers for controlled drug delivery

D Liu, H Zhang, F Fontana, JT Hirvonen, HA Santos - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The microfluidic technique has brought unique opportunities toward the full control over the
production processes for drug delivery carriers, owing to the miniaturisation of the fluidic …

Current developments and applications of microfluidic technology toward clinical translation of nanomedicines

D Liu, H Zhang, F Fontana, JT Hirvonen… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2018 - Elsevier
Nanoparticulate drug delivery systems hold great potential for the therapy of many diseases,
especially cancer. However, the translation of nanoparticulate drug delivery systems from …

Standing surface acoustic wave (SSAW)-based microfluidic cytometer

Y Chen, AA Nawaz, Y Zhao, PH Huang, JP McCoy… - Lab on a Chip, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of microfluidic chip-based cytometers has become an important area due
to their advantages of compact size and low cost. Herein, we demonstrate a sheathless …

Advances in droplet-based microfluidic technology and its applications

LIU Zhao-Miao, Y Yang, DU Yu, P Yan - Chinese Journal of Analytical …, 2017 - Elsevier
Micro-droplets, with the properties of small size, large surface area, high speed, high
throughout, uniform size, closed system, internal stability and etc., are widely used in the …

Straightforward 3D hydrodynamic focusing in femtosecond laser fabricated microfluidic channels

P Paiè, F Bragheri, RM Vazquez, R Osellame - Lab on a Chip, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
We report on the use of femtosecond laser irradiation followed by chemical etching as a
microfabrication tool for innovative microfluidic networks that implement hydrodynamic …

Elucidation of the mechanistic aspects of chemical EOR in viscous oil systems

D Arab, SL Bryant, O Torsæter, P Englezos… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
Chemical enhanced oil recovery techniques have been suggested as efficient alternatives to
thermal methods in many thin/small viscous oil reservoirs in western Canada. These acidic …

All-silica microfluidic optical stretcher with acoustophoretic prefocusing

G Nava, F Bragheri, T Yang, P Minzioni… - Microfluidics and …, 2015 - Springer
Acoustophoresis is a widely reported and used technique for microparticle manipulation and
separation. In the study described here, acustophoresis is employed to prefocus the flow (ie …

Uniform droplet splitting and detection using Lab-on-Chip flow cytometry on a microfluidic PDMS device

C Kunstmann-Olsen, MM Hanczyc, J Hoyland… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2016 - Elsevier
A PDMS chip is fabricated using soft lithography and applied to investigate the formation
and division of nitrobenzene (NB) droplets in a two-phase system stabilized by oleic acid …

Investigation of mixing performance in passive micromixers

W Zhang, X Wang, X Feng, C Yang… - Industrial & Engineering …, 2016 - ACS Publications
This work is focused on the mixing performance in passive microchannels. Experiments are
performed to investigate the effect of inlet mixing angle and surface wettability on the …

Disease diagnostics using hydrodynamic flow focusing in microfluidic devices: Beyond flow cytometry

A Rajawat, S Tripathi - Biomedical engineering letters, 2020 - Springer
The multi-disciplinary field of microfluidics has the potential to provide solutions to a diverse
set of problems. It offers the advantages of high-throughput, continuous, rapid and …