Droplet-based microfluidic systems have been employed to manipulate discrete fluid
volumes with immiscible phases. Creating the fluid droplets at microscale has led to a …

Two-dimensional (2D) cell culture techniques are commonly employed to investigate
biophysical and biochemical cellular responses. However, these culture methods, having …

Hydrogels are biocompatible materials commonly used in biological applications, such as
cell encapsulation, tissue engineering and drug delivery systems. The use of hydrogels in …

Flow cytometry is an invaluable tool utilized in modern biomedical research and clinical
applications requiring high throughput, high resolution particle analysis for cytometric …

This work presents a feasible method for controllable preparation of monodisperse spherical
alginate microcapsules with structured multiphase oil cores, which have the potential to …

Current human fertilization in vitro (IVF) bypasses the female oviduct and manually
inseminates, fertilizes and cultivates embryos in a static microdrop containing appropriate …

Hydrogel droplets are biodegradable and biocompatible materials with promising
applications in tissue engineering, cell encapsulation, and clinical treatments. They …

Centrifugal droplet-based microfluidic devices have been applied to biomedical analysis
and diagnostics recently. However, in centrifugal droplet-based microfluidic devices …

The future of the life sciences is linked to automation and microfluidics. As robots start
working side by side with scientists, robotic automation of microfluidics in general, and …

Despite the popularity of the lattice-Boltzmann method (LBM) in simulating multiphase flows,
a general approach for modeling dilute species in multiphase systems is still missing. In this …