Integrated 3D printed heaters for microfluidic applications: Ammonium analysis within environmental water

E Fornells, E Murray, S Waheed, A Morrin… - Analytica Chimica …, 2020 - Elsevier
A multi-material 3D printed microfluidic reactor with integrated heating is presented, which
was applied within a manifold for the colorimetric determination of ammonium in natural …

Inertioelastic flow instability at a stagnation point

N Burshtein, K Zografos, AQ Shen, RJ Poole… - Physical Review X, 2017 - APS
A number of important industrial applications exploit the ability of small quantities of high
molecular weight polymer to suppress instabilities that arise in the equivalent flow of …

Droplet microreactor for high-throughput fluorescence-based measurements of single catalyst particle acidity

JC Vollenbroek, AE Nieuwelink, JG Bomer… - Microsystems & …, 2023 - nature.com
The particles of heterogeneous catalysts differ greatly in size, morphology, and most
importantly, in activity. Studying these catalyst particles in batch typically results in ensemble …

A microfluidic platform with cell-scale precise temperature control for simultaneous investigation of the osmotic responses of multiple oocytes

Z Lei, D **e, MK Mbogba, Z Chen, C Tian, L Xu… - Lab on a Chip, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The temperature-dependent oocyte membrane permeability plays a significant role in oocyte
cryopreservation, such as optimizing the addition/removal of cryoprotective agents and the …

Determination of the temperature-dependent cell membrane permeabilities using microfluidics with integrated flow and temperature control

C Fang, F Ji, Z Shu, D Gao - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
We developed an integrated microfluidic platform for instantaneous flow and localized
temperature control. The platform consisted of a flow-focusing region for sample delivery …

Temperature controlled tensiometry using droplet microfluidics

D Lee, C Fang, AS Ravan, GG Fuller, AQ Shen - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
We develop a temperature controllable microfluidic device for the accurate measurement of
temperature dependent interfacial tensions between two immiscible liquids. A localized …

Microfluidic and mathematical modeling of aquatic microbial communities

F Liu, A Giometto, M Wu - Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, 2021 - Springer
Aquatic microbial communities contribute fundamentally to biogeochemical transformations
in natural ecosystems, and disruption of these communities can lead to ecological disasters …

Temperature-controlled microfluidic system incorporating polymer tubes

JY Zhu, N Nguyen, S Baratchi, P Thurgood… - Analytical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Here, we demonstrate a multilayered microfluidic system integrated with commercially
available polymer tubes for controlling the temperature of the sample under various static …

PCR virtual temperature sensor design based on system modeling and identification

P Wang, J Yang, S Wang, G Luo, B Wang, J Zhang… - Measurement, 2025 - Elsevier
The reaction results of Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) are highly sensitive to temperature
accuracy, but the reaction liquid temperature is hard to be measured directly. In this paper, a …

Interfacial tension measurements in microfluidic quasi-static extensional flows

D Lee, AQ Shen - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Droplet microfluidics provides a versatile tool for measuring interfacial tensions between two
immiscible fluids owing to its abilities of fast response, enhanced throughput, portability and …