Everything about Microfluidics
Interdisciplinary science
Microfluidics refers to a system that manipulates a small amount of fluids using small channels with sizes of ten to hundreds of micrometres. It is a multidisciplinary field that involves molecular analysis, molecular biology, and microelectronics. It has practical applications in the design of systems that process low volumes of fluids to achieve multiplexing, automation, and high-throughput screening. Microfluidics emerged in the beginning of the 1980s and is used in the development of inkjet printheads, DNA chips, lab-on-a-chip technology, micro-propulsion, and micro-thermal technologies. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: MicrofluidicsA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: An outlook on microfluidics: the promise and the challengeInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Digital microfluidic biochipsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The origins and the future of microfluidicsCited 8,989 times
- Go sideways: Droplet-based microfluidicsA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Digital microfluidicsA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The science concerned with the design and construction of microminiaturized devices containing chambers and tunnels through which fluids flow in a controlled manner; used to construct labs on a chip, ink-jet printer heads etc.
Noun The study of microfluids.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The origins and the future of microfluidics
Microfluidics: Fluid physics at the nanoliter scale
Engineering Flows in Small Devices: Microfluidics Toward a Lab-on-a-Chip
The present and future role of microfluidics in biomedical research
Droplet microfluidics
Lab-on-a-chip: microfluidics in drug discovery
Physics and Applications of Microfluidics in Biology
Inertial microfluidics
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
Digital microfluidic biochipsKrishnendu Chakrabarty, Tao Xu · 2006- 📕Microfluidics and nanofluidics handbookSushanta K. Mitra · 2011
- 📕Chemical and biological microsensorsJacques Fouletier · 2009
MicrofluidicsYujun Song, Daojian Cheng · 2017- 📕Diagnostic Devices with MicrofluidicsFrancesco Piraino · 2017
NanofluidsSarit K. Das, Stephen U. Choi · 2007
Microfluidics and NanofluidicsClement Kleinstreuer · 2013- 📕MicrofluidicsStéphane Colin · 2010
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🔗 Related topics
- Droplet-based microfluidics Droplet-based microfluidics manipulate discrete volumes of fluids in immiscible phases with low Reynolds number (<< 2300) and laminar flow regimes. An…
- Digital microfluidics Digital microfluidics (DMF) is a platform for lab-on-a-chip systems that is based upon the manipulation of microdroplets. Droplets are dispensed, moved…
- Lab-on-a-chip A lab-on-a-chip (LOC) is a device that integrates one or several laboratory functions on a single integrated circuit (commonly called a "chip") of only…
- Open microfluidics Microfluidics refers to the flow of fluid in channels or networks with at least one dimension on the micron scale. In open microfluidics, also referred…
- Microfluidics in chemical biology Microfluidics in chemical biology is the application of microfluidics in the study of chemical biology. Due to its physical dimensions, microfluidics both…
- Paper-based microfluidics Paper-based microfluidics are microfluidic devices that consist of a series of hydrophilic cellulose or nitrocellulose fibers that transport fluid from…
- Bio-MEMS Bio-MEMS is an abbreviation for biomedical (or biological) microelectromechanical systems. Bio-MEMS have considerable overlap, and is sometimes considered…
- Cell sorting Cell sorting is the process through which a particular cell type is separated from others contained in a sample on the basis of its physical or biological…