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Can 3D Printing Bring Droplet Microfluidics to Every Lab?—A Systematic Review

Micromachines, 2021
In recent years, additive manufacturing has steadily gained attention in both research and industry. Applications range from prototyping to small-scale production, with 3D printing offering reduced logistics overheads, better design flexibility and ease ...
Nafisat Gyimah, Ott Scheler, Toomas Rang, Tamas Pardy   +3 more
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Insights into microfabrication and implementation of microfluidics in pharmaceutical drug delivery and analysis

OpenNano, 2023
Microfluidics are systems that set forth valuable means to efficiently control fluid movement and dynamics in specially fabricated micro-channel systems.
Omnia A. Al-wdan, Omnya A. Sharallah, Nada A. Abdelwahab, Alshimaa O. Mohammed, Enas Elmowafy, Mahmoud E. Soliman   +5 more
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Recent Advances and Future Perspectives on Microfluidic Liquid Handling

Micromachines, 2017
The interdisciplinary research field of microfluidics has the potential to revolutionize current technologies that require the handling of a small amount of fluid, a fast response, low costs and automation.
Nam-Trung Nguyen, Majid Hejazian, Chin Hong Ooi, Navid Kashaninejad   +3 more
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Biological Application of Digital Microfluidics Technology

Nano Biomedicine and Engineering, 2010
Digital microfluidics technology offers a platform for developing diagnostic applications with the advantages of portability, sample and reagent volume reduction, faster analysis, increased automation, low power consumption, compatibility with mass ...
Bin Liu, Yan Deng, Binbing Qin, Zhiyang Li, Nongyue He   +4 more
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Integrating microfluidics and biosensing on a single flexible acoustic device using hybrid modes [PDF]

, 2020
Integration of microfluidics and biosensing functionalities on a single device holds promise in continuous health monitoring and disease diagnosis for point-of-care applications.
Dodd, Linzi, Fu, Richard, Luo, Jing-ting, McHale, Glen, Reboud, Julien, Tao, Kai, Tao, Ran, Todryk, Stephen, Torun, Hamdi, Wu, Qiang, Yang, Xin   +10 more
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Programmable Electrowetting with Channels and Droplets

Micromachines, 2015
In this work, we demonstrate continuous and discrete functions in a digital microfluidic platform in a programmed manner. Digital microfluidics is gaining popularity in biological and biomedical applications due to its ability to manipulate discrete ...
Ananda Banerjee, Joo Hyon Noh, Yuguang Liu, Philip D. Rack, Ian Papautsky   +4 more
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Advances in Testing Techniques for Digital Microfluidic Biochips

Sensors, 2017
With the advancement of digital microfluidics technology, applications such as on-chip DNA analysis, point of care diagnosis and automated drug discovery are common nowadays.
Vineeta Shukla, Fawnizu Azmadi Hussin, Nor Hisham Hamid, Noohul Basheer Zain Ali   +3 more
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Recent advancements in single-cell metabolic analysis for pharmacological research

Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis, 2023
Cellular heterogeneity is crucial for understanding tissue biology and disease pathophysiology. Pharmacological research is being advanced by single-cell metabolic analysis, which offers a technique to identify variations in RNA, proteins, metabolites ...
Ying Hou, Hongren Yao, Jin-Ming Lin
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Optical imaging techniques in microfluidics and their applications [PDF]

, 2012
Microfluidic devices have undergone rapid development in recent years and provide a lab-on-a-chip solution for many biomedical and chemical applications.
Lee, Lap Man, Wu, Jigang, Zheng, Guoan
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An efficient protocol to use feedback-controlling digital microfluidic fluorimetric sensor for detection of mercury (II) in coastal seawaters

MethodsX, 2019
Mercury ion is a highly toxic anthropogenic pollutants and has serious well-known effects on human. There is an ever-growing demand for convenient detection of mercury driven contaminants in environment, including coastal seawater.
Shuang Han, Xianming Liu, Lin Wang, Yunhua Wang, Guoxia Zheng   +4 more
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