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 …

[HTML][HTML] Scale-up of micro-and milli-reactors: An overview of strategies, design principles and applications

Z Dong, Z Wen, F Zhao, S Kuhn, T Noël - Chemical Engineering Science: X, 2021 - Elsevier
Continuous-flow microreactor technology has been embraced by researchers in academia
and industry due to its excellent transport properties and the increased safety and control …

Formation of droplets and bubbles in a microfluidic T-junction—scaling and mechanism of break-up

P Garstecki, MJ Fuerstman, HA Stone, GM Whitesides - Lab on a Chip, 2006 - pubs.rsc.org
This article describes the process of formation of droplets and bubbles in microfluidic T-
junction geometries. At low capillary numbers break-up is not dominated by shear stresses …

Lab-on-a-chip: microfluidics in drug discovery

PS Dittrich, A Manz - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2006 - nature.com
Miniaturization can expand the capability of existing bioassays, separation technologies and
chemical synthesis techniques. Although a reduction in size to the micrometre scale will …

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 …

Droplet based microfluidics

R Seemann, M Brinkmann, T Pfohl… - Reports on progress …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Droplet based microfluidics is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of research combining
soft matter physics, biochemistry and microsystems engineering. Its applications range from …

Deciding whether to go with the flow: evaluating the merits of flow reactors for synthesis

RL Hartman, JP McMullen… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The fine chemicals and pharmaceutical industries are transforming how their products are
manufactured, where economically favorable, from traditional batchwise processes to …

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 …

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 …

Synthesis of micro and nanostructures in microfluidic systems

S Marre, KF Jensen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
In this critical review, we present an overview of the current progress in synthesis of micro
and nanostructures by using microfluidics techniques. Emphasis is placed on processes that …