Microfluidic fabrication of microparticles for biomedical applications

W Li, L Zhang, X Ge, B Xu, W Zhang, L Qu… - Chemical Society …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Droplet microfluidics offers exquisite control over the flows of multiple fluids in microscale,
enabling fabrication of advanced microparticles with precisely tunable structures and …

Microfluidics for drug development: from synthesis to evaluation

Y Liu, L Sun, H Zhang, L Shang, Y Zhao - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Drug development is a long process whose main content includes drug synthesis, drug
delivery, and drug evaluation. Compared with conventional drug development procedures …

Emerging aqueous two-phase systems: from fundamentals of interfaces to biomedical applications

Y Chao, HC Shum - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Aqueous two-phase systems (ATPSs) have been recognized for their applications in
extraction, separation, purification, and enrichment of (bio) molecules and cells. Recently …

Advances in passively driven microfluidics and lab-on-chip devices: A comprehensive literature review and patent analysis

V Narayanamurthy, ZE Jeroish, KS Bhuvaneshwari… - RSC …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of passively driven microfluidic labs on chips has been increasing over the
years. In the passive approach, the microfluids are usually driven and operated without any …

Water-in-water (W/W) emulsions

J Esquena - Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Water-in-water (W/W) emulsions are colloidal dispersions of an aqueous solution
into another aqueous phase. Such dispersions can be formed in mixtures of at least two …

Materials and methods for droplet microfluidic device fabrication

KS Elvira, F Gielen, SSH Tsai, AM Nightingale - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Since the first reports two decades ago, droplet-based systems have emerged as a
compelling tool for microbiological and (bio) chemical science, with droplet flow providing …

Microfluidics for biosynthesizing: from droplets and vesicles to artificial cells

Y Ai, R Xie, J Xiong, Q Liang - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Fabrication of artificial biomimetic materials has attracted abundant attention. As one of the
subcategories of biomimetic materials, artificial cells are highly significant for multiple …

Cell‐inspired all‐aqueous microfluidics: from intracellular liquid–liquid phase separation toward advanced biomaterials

Q Ma, Y Song, W Sun, J Cao, H Yuan… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Living cells have evolved over billions of years to develop structural and functional
complexity with numerous intracellular compartments that are formed due to liquid–liquid …

Microfluidic technologies for nanoparticle formation

F Tian, L Cai, C Liu, J Sun - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Functional nanoparticles (NPs) hold immense promise in diverse fields due to their unique
biological, chemical, and physical properties associated with size or morphology …

Liquid–liquid phase separation in artificial cells

CD Crowe, CD Keating - Interface Focus, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) in biology is a recently appreciated means of
intracellular compartmentalization. Because the mechanisms driving phase separations are …