Tumor-on-a-chip: from bioinspired design to biomedical application

X Liu, J Fang, S Huang, X Wu, X **e, J Wang… - Microsystems & …, 2021 - nature.com
Cancer is one of the leading causes of human death, despite enormous efforts to explore
cancer biology and develop anticancer therapies. The main challenges in cancer research …

The additive manufacturing approach to polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microfluidic devices: review and future directions

A Tony, I Badea, C Yang, Y Liu, G Wells, K Wang, R Yin… - Polymers, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a comprehensive review of the literature for fabricating PDMS
microfluidic devices by employing additive manufacturing (AM) processes. AM processes for …

PDMS with designer functionalities—Properties, modifications strategies, and applications

MP Wolf, GB Salieb-Beugelaar, P Hunziker - Progress in Polymer Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Rapid progress in micro-and nanotechnologies such as lab-on-a-chip (microfluidic
networks, sensors, actuators, and connectors), soft lithography (replica moulding …

Molecular electronics: creating and bridging molecular junctions and promoting its commercialization

T Li, VK Bandari, OG Schmidt - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular electronics is driven by the dream of expanding Moore's law to the molecular level
for next‐generation electronics through incorporating individual or ensemble molecules into …

Cell–material interactions revealed via material techniques of surface patterning

X Yao, R Peng, J Ding - Advanced materials, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Cell–material interactions constitute a key fundamental topic in biomaterials study. Various
cell cues and matrix cues as well as soluble factors regulate cell behaviors on materials …

Soft lithography in biology and biochemistry

GM Whitesides, E Ostuni, S Takayama… - Annual review of …, 2001 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Soft lithography, a set of techniques for microfabrication, is based on printing and
molding using elastomeric stamps with the patterns of interest in bas-relief. As a technique …

Inkjet printing for materials and devices

P Calvert - Chemistry of materials, 2001 - ACS Publications
Inkjet printing is familiar as a method of printing text and images onto porous surfaces. In the
last few years it has been used as a free-form fabrication method for building three …

Engineering substrate topography at the micro‐and nanoscale to control cell function

CJ Bettinger, R Langer… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The interaction of mammalian cells with nanoscale topography has proven to be an
important signaling modality in controlling cell function. Naturally occurring nanotopographic …

New approaches to nanofabrication: molding, printing, and other techniques

BD Gates, Q Xu, M Stewart, D Ryan, CG Willson… - Chemical …, 2005 - ACS Publications
“Nanofabrication” is the process of making functional structures with arbitrary patterns
having minimum dimensions currently defined (more-or-less arbitrarily) to be e100 nm …

Emerging chitin and chitosan nanofibrous materials for biomedical applications

F Ding, H Deng, Y Du, X Shi, Q Wang - Nanoscale, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the past several decades, we have witnessed significant progress in chitosan and
chitin based nanostructured materials. The nanofibers from chitin and chitosan with …