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 …

Organs-on-chips at the frontiers of drug discovery

EW Esch, A Bahinski, D Huh - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2015 - nature.com
Improving the effectiveness of preclinical predictions of human drug responses is critical to
reducing costly failures in clinical trials. Recent advances in cell biology, microfabrication …

25th anniversary article: Rational design and applications of hydrogels in regenerative medicine

N Annabi, A Tamayol, JA Uquillas, M Akbari… - Advanced …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels are hydrophilic polymer‐based materials with high water content and physical
characteristics that resemble the native extracellular matrix. Because of their remarkable …

A sinterless, low-temperature route to 3D print nanoscale optical-grade glass

J Bauer, C Crook, T Baldacchini - Science, 2023 - science.org
Three-dimensional (3D) printing of silica glass is dominated by techniques that rely on
traditional particle sintering. At the nanoscale, this limits their adoption within microsystem …

Opportunities and challenges for biosensors and nanoscale analytical tools for pandemics: COVID-19

N Bhalla, Y Pan, Z Yang, AF Payam - ACS nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
Biosensors and nanoscale analytical tools have shown huge growth in literature in the past
20 years, with a large number of reports on the topic of 'ultrasensitive','cost-effective', and …

Acoustic tweezers for high-throughput single-cell analysis

S Yang, J Rufo, R Zhong, J Rich, Z Wang, LP Lee… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Acoustic tweezers provide an effective means for manipulating single cells and particles in a
high-throughput, precise, selective and contact-free manner. The adoption of acoustic …

Advances in microfluidic materials, functions, integration, and applications

PN Nge, CI Rogers, AT Woolley - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
Microfluidics consist of microfabricated structures for liquid handling, with cross sections in
the 1–500 μm range and small volume capacity (femtoliter to nanoliter). Capillary tubes …

Surface acoustic wave microfluidics

X Ding, P Li, SCS Lin, ZS Stratton, N Nama, F Guo… - Lab on a Chip, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The recent introduction of surface acoustic wave (SAW) technology onto lab-on-a-chip
platforms has opened a new frontier in microfluidics. The advantages provided by such SAW …

Microfluidics for drug development: from synthesis to evaluation

Y Liu, L Sun, H Zhang, L Shang, Y Zhao - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Drug development is a long process whose main content includes drug synthesis, drug
delivery, and drug evaluation. Compared with conventional drug development procedures …

The Poisson distribution and beyond: methods for microfluidic droplet production and single cell encapsulation

DJ Collins, A Neild, A DeMello, AQ Liu, Y Ai - Lab on a Chip, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
There is a recognized and growing need for rapid and efficient cell assays, where the size of
microfluidic devices lend themselves to the manipulation of cellular populations down to the …