This review summarizes and compares the available surface treatment and bonding
techniques (eg, corona triggered surface activation, oxygen plasma surface activation …

Nucleic acids, including deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA), are
natural biopolymers composed of nucleotides that store, transmit, and express genetic …

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

The rapid development of 3D printing (or additive manufacturing) technologies demands
new materials with novel properties and functionalities. Superhydrophobic materials, owing …

Microfluidics is a growing field of study because these devices offer novel and versatile
approaches for addressing a range of scientific problems. Microfluidics have been used in …

Obtaining structural information from tomographic images of porous materials is a critical
component of porous media research. Extracting pore networks is particularly valuable since …

Silicone elastomers are promising materials for dielectric elastomer transducers (DETs) due
to their superior properties such as high efficiency, reliability and fast response times. DETs …

With the continuous development in nanoscience and nanotechnology, analytical
techniques like surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) render structural and …

Next generation sequencing is in the process of evolving from a technology used for
research purposes to one which is applied in clinical diagnostics. Recently introduced high …

Synthetic microbial consortia represent a new frontier for synthetic biology given that they
can solve more complex problems than monocultures. However, most attempts to co …