Soft robotics

GM Whitesides - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This description of “soft robotics” is not intended to be a conventional review, in the sense of
a comprehensive technical summary of a developing field. Rather, its objective is to describe …

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 …

Emerging applications of liquid metals featuring surface oxides

MD Dickey - ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2014 - ACS Publications
Gallium and several of its alloys are liquid metals at or near room temperature. Gallium has
low toxicity, essentially no vapor pressure, and a low viscosity. Despite these desirable …

Materials for microfluidic chip fabrication

K Ren, J Zhou, H Wu - Accounts of chemical research, 2013 - ACS Publications
Through manipulating fluids using microfabricated channeland chamber structures,
microfluidics is a powerful tool to realize high sensitive, high speed, high throughput, and …

[PDF][PDF] 3D printing of free standing liquid metal microstructures

C Ladd, JH So, J Muth, MD Dickey - Adv. Mater, 2013 - researchgate.net
This paper describes a method to direct-write liquid metal microcomponents at room
temperature. Three-dimensional (3D) printing is gaining popularity for rapid prototyping and …

Design of capillary microfluidics for spinning cell-laden microfibers

Y Yu, L Shang, J Guo, J Wang, Y Zhao - Nature Protocols, 2018 - nature.com
This protocol describes the design of capillary microfluidics for spinning bioactive (cell-
laden) microfibers for three-dimensional (3D) cell culture and tissue-engineering …

Integrating electronics and microfluidics on paper

M Hamedi, A Ainla, F Guder… - Advanced …, 2016 - dash.harvard.edu
The fields of paper microfluidics and printed electronics have developed independently, and
are incompatible in many of their aspects (eg printed electronic thin films are not designed to …

Smart contact lenses for biosensing applications

X Ma, S Ahadian, S Liu, J Zhang, S Liu… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Smart contact lenses have emerged as novel wearable devices. Due to their multifunctional
biosensing capabilities and highly integrated performance, they provide a great platform for …

Microfluidic sensing: state of the art fabrication and detection techniques

J Wu, M Gu - Journal of biomedical optics, 2011 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Here we introduce the existing fabrication techniques, detection methods, and related
techniques for microfluidic sensing, with an emphasis on the detection techniques. A …

Inherently aligned microfluidic electrodes composed of liquid metal

JH So, MD Dickey - Lab on a Chip, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
This paper describes the fabrication and characterization of microelectrodes that are
inherently aligned with microfluidic channels and in direct contact with the fluid in the …