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 …

Digital manufacturing for microfluidics

A Naderi, N Bhattacharjee… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The microfluidics field is at a critical crossroads. The vast majority of microfluidic devices are
presently manufactured using micromolding processes that work very well for a reduced set …

Thin, soft, skin‐mounted microfluidic networks with capillary bursting valves for chrono‐sampling of sweat

J Choi, D Kang, S Han, SB Kim… - Advanced healthcare …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Systems for time sequential capture of microliter volumes of sweat released from targeted
regions of the skin offer the potential to enable analysis of temporal variations in electrolyte …

Membrane integration into PDMS-free microfluidic platforms for organ-on-chip and analytical chemistry applications

S Schneider, D Gruner, A Richter, P Loskill - Lab on a Chip, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Membranes play a crucial role in many microfluidic systems, enabling versatile applications
in highly diverse research fields. However, the tight and robust integration of membranes …

SEBS elastomers for fabrication of microfluidic devices with reduced drug absorption by injection molding and extrusion

K Domansky, JD Sliz, N Wen, C Hinojosa… - Microfluidics and …, 2017 - Springer
The majority of microfluidic devices used for cell culture, including Organ-on-a-Chips (Organ
Chips), are fabricated using polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) polymer because it is flexible …

[HTML][HTML] Facile patterning of thermoplastic elastomers and robust bonding to glass and thermoplastics for microfluidic cell culture and organ-on-chip

S Schneider, EJS Brás, O Schneider, K Schlünder… - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
The emergence and spread of microfluidics over the last decades relied almost exclusively
on the elastomer polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). The main reason for the success of PDMS …

Peristaltic on-chip pump for tunable media circulation and whole blood perfusion in PDMS-free organ-on-chip and Organ-Disc systems

S Schneider, M Bubeck, J Rogal, HJ Weener, C Rojas… - Lab on a Chip, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Organ-on-chip (OoC) systems have become a promising tool for personalized medicine and
drug development with advantages over conventional animal models and cell assays …

From cellular lysis to microarray detection, an integrated thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) point of care Lab on a Disc

E Roy, G Stewart, M Mounier, L Malic, R Peytavi… - Lab on a Chip, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
We present an all-thermoplastic integrated sample-to-answer centrifugal microfluidic Lab-on-
Disc system (LoD) for nucleic acid analysis. The proposed CD system and engineered …

Thermoplastic elastomer with advanced hydrophilization and bonding performances for rapid (30 s) and easy molding of microfluidic devices

J Lachaux, C Alcaine, B Gomez-Escoda, CM Perrault… - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
One of the most important areas of research on microfluidic technologies focuses on the
identification and characterisation of novel materials with enhanced properties and …

Centrifugal microfluidic lab-on-a-chip system with automated sample lysis, DNA amplification and microarray hybridization for identification of enterohemorrhagic …

M Geissler, D Brassard, L Clime, AVC Pilar, L Malic… - Analyst, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of technology for the rapid, automated identification of bacterial culture
isolates can help regulatory agencies to shorten response times in food safety surveillance …