Hydrogels are excellent water-swollen polymeric materials for use in wearable, implantable,
and disposable biosensors. Hydrogels have unique properties such as low cost, ease of …

Microfluidic paper-based analytical devices (μPADs) have experienced rapid growth over
the past decade due to their simple design, low cost, minimal sample requirement, and good …

Wearable electrochemical sensors have attracted tremendous attention in recent years.
Significant progress has been achieved, particularly in device integration. Most wearable …

Versatile sensing matrixes are essential for the development of enzyme-immobilized optical
biosensors. A novel three-dimensional titanium dioxide nanotubes/alginate hydrogel …

Evaporation, pervaporation, and forward osmosis are processes leading to a mass transfer
of solvent across an interface: gas/liquid for evaporation and solid/liquid (membrane) for …

The microfluidic flow is typically laminar due to the dominant viscous effects. At Reynolds
numbers far below 1 (Re≪ 1), the fluid inertia can be neglected. For the steady flow of …

Over the last 10 years, researchers have shown that paper is a promising substrate for
affordable biosensors. The field of paper-microfluidics has evolved rapidly in that time, with …

There is growing demand for simple to operate, sensitive, on-site quantitative assays to
investigate concentrations of drug molecules in pharmaceutical preparations for quality …

A microfluidic biosensor paper-based analytical device, or μPAD, was developed as a point-
of-care assay platform for the simultaneous determination of three clinically important …

In order to facilitate the implementation of microfluidic technology for rapid point-of-care
analysis, there is a demand for self-powered microfluidics. The modular architecture of …