This review comprises a detailed survey of ongoing methodologies for soft actuators,
highlighting approaches suitable for nanometer‐to centimeter‐scale robotic applications …

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

Droplet-based microfluidic systems have been shown to be compatible with many chemical
and biological reagents and capable of performing a variety of “digital fluidic” operations that …

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

We survey progress over the past 25 years in the development of microscale devices for
pum** fluids. We attempt to provide both a reference for micropump researchers and a …

Fundamental and applied research in chemistry and biology benefits from opportunities
provided by droplet‐based microfluidic systems. These systems enable the miniaturization …

Reports the completion of four fundamental fluidic operations considered essential to build
digital microfluidic circuits, which can be used for lab-on-a-chip or micro total analysis …

We review microfluidic platforms that enable the miniaturization, integration and automation
of biochemical assays. Nowadays nearly an unmanageable variety of alternative …

We have obtained interfacial properties of Galinstan, a nontoxic liquid-metal alloy, to help
replace mercury in miniature devices. To prevent formation of an oxide skin that severely …

This review gives a brief overview of microvalves, and focuses on the actuation mechanisms
and their applications. One of the stumbling blocks for successful miniaturization and …