Recent advances and applications of micromixers

CY Lee, LM Fu - Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2018 - Elsevier
Micromixers are crucial components within micro biomedical systems. This article presents a
comprehensive review of the main state-of-the art applications of micromixers in biomedical …

Smart droplets stabilized by designer surfactants: from biomimicry to active motion to materials healing

Z Yang, D Snyder, A Sathyan, A Balazs… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The science and technologies of emulsion droplets have been a long‐term focus of
extensive research endeavors for their practical utility across a breadth of industries …

Self-synchronization of reinjected droplets for high-efficiency droplet pairing and merging

L Nan, T Mao, HC Shum - Microsystems & Nanoengineering, 2023 - nature.com
Droplet merging serves as a powerful tool to add reagents to moving droplets for biological
and chemical reactions. However, unsynchronized droplet pairing impedes high-efficiency …

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 …

Mixing Enhancement in a Chaotic Micromixer with Reversed Ridges and Grooves

S Chen, Q Lin, N Pan, M Hao, Y Jiang… - Industrial & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A novel micromixer named reversed ridges and grooves micromixer (RRGM) with chaotic
and passive characteristics is devised and analyzed numerically. Compared with a slanted …

Integrating immunology and microfluidics for single immune cell analysis

N Sinha, N Subedi, J Tel - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The field of immunoengineering aims to develop novel therapies and modern vaccines to
manipulate and modulate the immune system and applies innovative technologies toward …

Effects of magnetic nanoparticles on mixing in droplet-based microfluidics

MA Maleki, M Soltani, N Kashaninejad, NT Nguyen - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
High-throughput, rapid and homogeneous mixing of microdroplets in a small length scale
such as that in a microchannel is of great importance for lab-on-a-chip applications. Various …

Development and potential for point-of-care heavy metal sensing using microfluidic systems: A brief review

W Cui, Z Ren, Y Song, CL Ren - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2022 - Elsevier
Heavy metal pollution on earth has evolved into a global issue causing serious risks to
human health and other living entities and having an impact on sustainability. Accurate …

Automated Dynamic Inlet Microfluidics (ADIM) system: cost-effective biaxial nanoliter droplet on demand generation platform and its application in agglutination …

AB Zia, IG Foulds - Lab on a Chip, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
The paper demonstrates an adaptation of a Prusa Mini+ 3D printer through the integration of
3D printed modules, creating a system capable of producing varied droplets from multiple …

Simulation before fabrication: a case study on the utilization of simulators for the design of droplet microfluidic networks

A Grimmer, X Chen, M Hamidović, W Haselmayr… - RSC …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The functional performance of passively operated droplet microfluidics is sensitive with
respect to the dimensions of the channel network, the fabrication precision as well as the …