As the rapid development of medical devices, micropumps have received increasing and
widespread attentions for a variety of healthcare applications. The ongoing challenges for …

Digital microfluidics, with a distinctive manner of droplet actuation via electrowetting on
individually addressable electrodes, has made tremendous scientific and technical …

We introduce DropBot: an open-source instrument for digital microfluidics
(http://microfluidics. utoronto. ca/dropbot). DropBot features two key functionalities for digital …

Directional droplet transport on smart surfaces with superwettabilities arouse extensive
attentions from both the scientific community and industry due to the exciting applications in …

Automated technologies that can perform massively parallelized and sequential fluidic
operations at small length scales can resolve major bottlenecks encountered in various …

As the technology advances, a growing number of biomedical microelectromechanical
systems (bio-MEMS) research involves development of lab-on-a-chip devices and micrototal …

In vitro diagnostics (IVDs) form the cornerstone of modern medicine. They are routinely
employed throughout the entire treatment pathway, from initial diagnosis through to …

The widespread dissemination of CTX-M extended spectrum β-lactamases among
Escherichia coli bacteria, both in nosocomial and community environments, is a challenge …

Digital microfluidics (DMF) has the signatures of an ideal liquid handling platform–as shown
through almost two decades of automated biological and chemical assays. However, in the …

Superomniphobic textures are at the frontier of surface design for vast arrays of applications.
Despite recent substantial advances in fabrication methods for reentrant and doubly …