Advances in drug delivery systems, challenges and future directions

TC Ezike, US Okpala, UL Onoja, CP Nwike, EC Ezeako… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Advances in molecular pharmacology and an improved understanding of the mechanism of
most diseases have created the need to specifically target the cells involved in the initiation …

Emerging droplet microfluidics

L Shang, Y Cheng, Y Zhao - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Droplet microfluidics generates and manipulates discrete droplets through immiscible
multiphase flows inside microchannels. Due to its remarkable advantages, droplet …

Assorted kerosene-based nanofluid across a dual-zone vertical annulus with electroosmosis

SI Abdelsalam, AM Alsharif, Y Abd Elmaboud… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
The goal of this numerical simulation is to visualize the electroosmotic flow of immiscible
fluids through a porous medium in vertical annular microtubes. The inner region (Region I) is …

Microfluidics for drug development: from synthesis to evaluation

Y Liu, L Sun, H Zhang, L Shang, Y Zhao - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Drug development is a long process whose main content includes drug synthesis, drug
delivery, and drug evaluation. Compared with conventional drug development procedures …

Transducer technologies for biosensors and their wearable applications

EO Polat, MM Cetin, AF Tabak, E Bilget Güven… - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
The development of new biosensor technologies and their active use as wearable devices
have offered mobility and flexibility to conventional western medicine and personal fitness …

Miniature and fieldable mass spectrometers: recent advances

DT Snyder, CJ Pulliam, Z Ouyang… - Analytical chemistry, 2016 - ACS Publications
We discuss mini MS systems in terms of individual components and at a systems level.
Portable systems from academic and commercial laboratories are emphasized, but meso …

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 …

Flexible microfluidics: Fundamentals, recent developments, and applications

H Fallahi, J Zhang, HP Phan, NT Nguyen - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Miniaturization has been the driving force of scientific and technological advances over
recent decades. Recently, flexibility has gained significant interest, particularly in …

[HTML][HTML] Biology-inspired microphysiological system approaches to solve the prediction dilemma of substance testing

U Marx, TB Andersson, A Bahinski, M Beilmann… - Altex, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The recent advent of microphysiological systems–microfluidic biomimetic devices that aspire
to emulate the biology of human tissues, organs and circulation in vitro–is envisaged to …

Biomedical microfluidic devices by using low-cost fabrication techniques: A review

V Faustino, SO Catarino, R Lima, G Minas - Journal of biomechanics, 2016 - Elsevier
One of the most popular methods to fabricate biomedical microfluidic devices is by using a
soft-lithography technique. However, the fabrication of the moulds to produce microfluidic …