Smart soft materials are envisioned to be the building blocks of the next generation of
advanced devices and digitally augmented technologies. In this context, liquid crystals (LCs) …

Microfluidics, a technology characterized by the engineered manipulation of fluids at the
submillimetre scale, has shown considerable promise for improving diagnostics and biology …

Much of our understanding of the biological mechanisms that underlie cellular functions,
such as migration, differentiation and force-sensing has been garnered from studying cells …

Chiral nanophotonic materials are promising candidates for biosensing applications
because they focus light into nanometer dimensions, increasing their sensitivity to the …

Microfabricated integrated circuits revolutionized computation by vastly reducing the space,
labor, and time required for calculations. Microfluidic systems hold similar promise for the …

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

Soft robots are primarily composed of easily deformable matter such as fluids, gels, and
elastomers that match the elastic and rheological properties of biological tissue and organs …

This Account summarizes techniques for fabrication and applications in biomedicine of
microfluidic devices fabricated in poly (dimethylsiloxane)(PDMS). The methods and …

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

▪ Abstract Fluid flow at the microscale exhibits unique phenomena that can be leveraged to
fabricate devices and components capable of performing functions useful for biological …