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Integrating Artificial Intelligence With Droplet‐Based Microfluidics: Advances, Challenges, and Emerging Opportunities

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Droplet‐based microfluidics enables precise, high‐throughput microscale reactions but continues to face challenges in scalability, reproducibility, and data complexity. This review examines how artificial intelligence enhances droplet generation, detection, sorting, and adaptive control and discusses emerging opportunities for clinical and industrial ...
Junyan Lai, Sukrit Gaira, Rongfeng Wang, Qingtian Zhang, Ming Li, Liao Wu, Diangeng Li, Yi Li, Chengchen Zhang, Jinhong Guo, Shi‐Yang Tang   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Droplet microfluidics: Enabling the tailored fabrication of hydrogel particles

Droplet, EarlyView.
Droplet microfluidics enables precise, versatile fabrication of hydrogel particles with controlled size, composition, and structure. This review summarizes fundamental principles, engineering strategies, and emerging applications, providing a framework for advancing microfluidic hydrogel technologies.
Zhongqiao Gan, Xu Hou
wiley   +1 more source

Wetting of ferrofluids: phenomena and control

, 2018
Ferrofluids are liquids exhibiting remarkably strong response to magnetic fields, which leads to fascinating properties useful in various applications.
Backholm, Matilda, Latikka, Mika, Ras, Robin H. A., Timonen, Jaakko V. I.   +3 more
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Silicone oil–based ferrofluid microrobots for versatile magnetic digital microfluidics

Droplet, EarlyView.
A magneto‐silicobotic system is a magnetic digital microfluidic platform that employs a silicone oil–based ferrofluid droplet as a chemically and biologically inert microrobot for the versatile manipulation of droplets and solid particles. Abstract Magnetic digital microfluidics offers a promising alternative to the dominant electrowetting‐based ...
Pu Liu, Leilei Chen, Yulei Fu, Wendong Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

SERS‐Based Nano‐ and Microsystems Toward Biomedical Applications

Small, EarlyView.
This review provides a current overview of nano‐ and microscale SERS‐based devices, encompassing all aspects from material design to practical applications. We highlight controlled SERS‐active architectures, including patterned substrates, nanorods, microspheres, micromotors, and microneedles, as well as combinations of these microfluidic systems.
Gohar Soufi, Tijana Maric, Isidro Badillo‐Ramírez, Juliane Fjelrad Christfort, Matteo Tollemeto, Carmen Milan Guimera, Casper Nisula, Giulia Zappalá, Laura De Vittorio, Marta Rubio‐Huertas, Sungyeong Kim, Ziqiao Li, Morten Bo Søndergaard Svendsen, Zhongyang Zhang, Anja Boisen   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trapping of drops by wetting defects [PDF]

, 2014
Controlling the motion of drops on solid surfaces is crucial in many natural phenomena and technological processes including the collection and removal of rain drops, cleaning technology and heat exchangers.
Berendsen, C., Ende, H.T.M. van den, Ghosh, S., Lagraauw, R., Mannetje, D.J.C.M. 't, Mugele, F.G., Otten, S., Pit, A.M., Zeegers, J.   +8 more
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Experimental Factors and Techniques for Pool Boiling Heat Transfer Enhancement: A Critical Review

Heat Transfer, Volume 55, Issue 4, Page 2201-2232, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This review presents a comprehensive assessment of active strategies for enhancing pool boiling heat transfer, with a focus on techniques that do not rely solely on the boiling surface modification. It examines a broad range of methodologies including fluid additives, external fields, mechanical interventions, and thermal‐geometric tuning that
José E. Pereira, R. R. Souza, A. S. Moita   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Driving Waveform Design with Rising Gradient and Sawtooth Wave of Electrowetting Displays for Ultra-Low Power Consumption

Micromachines, 2020
As a kind of paper-like display technology, power consumption is a very important index for electrowetting displays (EWDs). In this paper, the influence of driving waveforms on power consumption of the EWDs is analyzed, and a driving waveform with rising
Wei Li, Li Wang, Taiyuan Zhang, Shufa Lai, Linwei Liu, Wenyao He, Guofu Zhou, Zichuan Yi   +7 more
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Microscale Templating of Functional Particles Using Self‐Limiting Electrospray Deposition

Small, Volume 22, Issue 25, 4 May 2026.
Self‐limiting electrospray deposition (SLED) uses trapped charge in a growing film to redirect incoming material and produce highly targeted and uniform sprays. Here, nanoparticles are added to sprays to functionalize pre‐patterned electrodes and other devices.
Michael J. Grzenda, Jouan Yu, Maria Atzampou, Christopher E. Shuck, Yury Gogotsi, Jeffrey D. Zahn, Jonathan P. Singer   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Driving Waveform Design of Electrowetting Displays Based on an Exponential Function for a Stable Grayscale and a Short Driving Time

Micromachines, 2020
The traditional driving waveform of the electrowetting display (EWD) has many disadvantages, such as the large oscillation of the target grayscale aperture ratio and a long time for achieving grayscale.
Zichuan Yi, Zhenyu Huang, Shufa Lai, Wenyao He, Li Wang, Feng Chi, Chongfu Zhang, Lingling Shui, Guofu Zhou   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source