Recent advances of controlled drug delivery using microfluidic platforms

ST Sanjay, W Zhou, M Dou, H Tavakoli, L Ma… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2018 - Elsevier
Conventional systematically-administered drugs distribute evenly throughout the body, get
degraded and excreted rapidly while crossing many biological barriers, leaving minimum …

Functional 3D printing for microfluidic chips

G Weisgrab, A Ovsianikov… - Advanced Materials …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Microfluidics enables the downscaling of biochemical applications from a lab setting to a
portable format. With the field's recent switch from replica molding to 3D printing, complex …

Cost-effective three-dimensional printing of visibly transparent microchips within minutes

AI Shallan, P Smejkal, M Corban, RM Guijt… - Analytical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
One-step fabrication of transparent three-dimensional (3D) microfluidic to millifluidic devices
was demonstrated using a commercial 3D printer costing 2300with500mLofclearresinfor …

Design of pressure-driven microfluidic networks using electric circuit analogy

KW Oh, K Lee, B Ahn, EP Furlani - Lab on a Chip, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
This article reviews the application of electric circuit methods for the analysis of pressure-
driven microfluidic networks with an emphasis on concentration-and flow-dependent …

Design, fabrication and characterization of drug delivery systems based on lab-on-a-chip technology

NT Nguyen, SAM Shaegh, N Kashaninejad… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2013 - Elsevier
Lab-on-a-chip technology is an emerging field evolving from the recent advances of micro-
and nanotechnologies. The technology allows the integration of various components into a …

Recent developments in microfluidics-based chemotaxis studies

J Wu, X Wu, F Lin - Lab on a Chip, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Microfluidic devices can better control cellular microenvironments compared to conventional
cell migration assays. Over the past few years, microfluidics-based chemotaxis studies …

Microfluidic bioanalytical flow cells for biofilm studies: a review

M Pousti, MP Zarabadi, MA Amirdehi, F Paquet-Mercier… - Analyst, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Bacterial biofilms are among the oldest and most prevalent multicellular life forms on Earth
and are increasingly relevant in research areas related to industrial fouling, medicine and …

SERS-based immunoassay using a gold array-embedded gradient microfluidic chip

M Lee, K Lee, KH Kim, KW Oh, J Choo - Lab on a Chip, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Here we report the development of a programmable and fully automatic gold array-
embedded gradient microfluidic chip that integrates a gradient microfluidic device with gold …

An integrated microfluidic device for two-dimensional combinatorial dilution

YH Jang, MJ Hancock, SB Kim, Š Selimović, WY Sim… - Lab on a Chip, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
High-throughput preparation of multi-component solutions is an integral process in biology,
chemistry and materials science for screening, diagnostics and analysis. Compact …

A compact microfluidic gradient generator using passive pumping

Y Gao, J Sun, WH Lin, DJ Webb, D Li - Microfluidics and nanofluidics, 2012 - Springer
Creating and maintaining a precise molecular gradient which is stable in space and time are
essential to studies of chemotaxis. This paper describes a simple, compact, and user …