Lab-on-a-chip devices leverage microfluidic technologies to enable chemical and biological
processes at small scales. However, existing microfluidic channel networks are typically …

Microfluidic devices manufactured from soft polymeric materials have emerged as a
paradigm for cheap, disposable and easy-to-prototype fluidic platforms for integrating …

Long, shallow microchannels embedded in thick, soft materials are widely used in
microfluidic devices for lab-on-a-chip applications. However, the bulging effect caused by …

Soft hydraulics, which addresses the interaction between an internal flow and a compliant
conduit, is a central problem in microfluidics. We analyze Newtonian fluid flow in a …

Slender tubes constituted of hyperelastic materials undergoing large deformations and
conveying inertialess flow of Newtonian fluids are a model representation of several systems …

The present editorial paper analyzes the hundred recent research works on soft actuation to
understand the current main research focus in the light of the grand challenges in the field …

We demonstrate the existence of a fluid-structure instability arising from the interaction of
electro-osmotic flow with an elastic substrate. Considering the case of flow within a soft …

We develop a one-dimensional model for the unsteady fluid-structure interaction (FSI)
between a soft-walled microchannel and viscous fluid flow within it. A beam equation, which …

Characterizing the elastic properties of soft materials through bulge testing relies on
accurate measurement of deformation, which is experimentally challenging. To avoid …

Electrokinetics of deformable interfaces holds the key in developing bio-mimetic micro-
devices for probing microvascular physiology and performing in vitro bio-analytical …