Development and future of droplet microfluidics

L Nan, H Zhang, DA Weitz, HC Shum - Lab on a Chip, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the past two decades, advances in droplet-based microfluidics have facilitated new
approaches to process and analyze samples with unprecedented levels of precision and …

Emerging droplet microfluidics

L Shang, Y Cheng, Y Zhao - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Droplet microfluidics generates and manipulates discrete droplets through immiscible
multiphase flows inside microchannels. Due to its remarkable advantages, droplet …

Machine learning enables design automation of microfluidic flow-focusing droplet generation

A Lashkaripour, C Rodriguez, N Mehdipour… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Droplet-based microfluidic devices hold immense potential in becoming inexpensive
alternatives to existing screening platforms across life science applications, such as enzyme …

Microfluidic lab-on-a-chip platforms: requirements, characteristics and applications

D Mark, S Haeberle, G Roth, F Von Stetten… - Microfluidics based …, 2010 - Springer
This review summarizes recent developments in microfluidic platform approaches. In
contrast to isolated application-specific solutions, a microfluidic platform provides a set of …

Bioinspired superwetting open microfluidics: from concepts, phenomena to applications

Y Si, C Li, J Hu, C Zhang, Z Dong - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Microfluidics and bioinspired superwetting materials, as two crucial branches of scientific
research, are entering their golden age of development. As an emerging interdisciplinary …

Reactions in droplets in microfluidic channels

H Song, DL Chen, RF Ismagilov - … chemie international edition, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Fundamental and applied research in chemistry and biology benefits from opportunities
provided by droplet‐based microfluidic systems. These systems enable the miniaturization …

Microfluidic platforms for lab-on-a-chip applications

S Haeberle, R Zengerle - Lab on a Chip, 2007 - pubs.rsc.org
We review microfluidic platforms that enable the miniaturization, integration and automation
of biochemical assays. Nowadays nearly an unmanageable variety of alternative …

Drip** to jetting transitions in coflowing liquid streams

AS Utada, A Fernandez-Nieves, HA Stone, DA Weitz - Physical review letters, 2007 - APS
A liquid forced through an orifice into an immiscible fluid ultimately breaks into drops due to
surface tension. Drop formation can occur right at the orifice in a drip** process …

Multiphase microfluidics: from flow characteristics to chemical and materials synthesis

A Günther, KF Jensen - Lab on a Chip, 2006 - pubs.rsc.org
We review transport characteristics of pressure-driven, multiphase flows through
microchannel networks tens of nanometres to several hundred of micrometres wide with …

Overflow control for sustainable development by superwetting surface with biomimetic structure

S Zhou, L Jiang, Z Dong - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Liquid flowing around a solid edge, ie, overflow, is a commonly observed flow behavior.
Recent research into surface wetting properties and microstructure-controlled overflow …