A review of digital microfluidics as portable platforms for lab-on a-chip applications

E Samiei, M Tabrizian, M Hoorfar - Lab on a Chip, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Following the development of microfluidic systems, there has been a high tendency towards
developing lab-on-a-chip devices for biochemical applications. A great deal of effort has …

Nucleic acid analysis on electrowetting-based digital microfluidics

R Shen, S Yi, P Wang, PI Mak, RP Martins… - TrAC Trends in Analytical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Since the disclosure of DNA/RNA as the genetic material, nucleic acid analysis has been an
indispensable category in molecular diagnosis, disease prediction, prognosis, and …

Photopyroelectric microfluidics

W Li, X Tang, L Wang - Science advances, 2020 - science.org
Precision manipulation of various liquids is essential in many fields. Unlike solid objects,
fluids are intrinsically divisible, enriching their fundamental operations with merging …

High-speed transport of liquid droplets in magnetic tubular microactuators

W Lei, G Hou, M Liu, Q Rong, Y Xu, Y Tian, L Jiang - Science advances, 2018 - science.org
Magnetic field–induced droplet actuation has attracted substantial research interest in recent
years. However, current magnetic-controlled liquids depend primarily on magnetic particles …

Bioinspired smart liquid directional transport control

Y Si, Z Dong - Langmuir, 2020 - ACS Publications
Developments in bioinspired superwetting materials have triggered technological
revolutions in many disciplines. One representative area is liquid directional transport …

Bioinspired Underwater Superoleophilic Two-Dimensional Surface with Asymmetric Oleophobic Barriers for Unidirectional and Long-Distance Oil Transport

S Guo, X Liu, C Guo, Y Ning, K Yang, C Yu… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Unidirectional and long-distance liquid transport is critically important to a range of practical
applications, eg, water harvesting, microfluidics, and chemical reactions. Great efforts have …

Orbital Electrowetting‐on‐Dielectric for Droplet Manipulation on Superhydrophobic Surfaces

J Tan, Z Fan, M Zhou, T Liu, S Sun, G Chen… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Electrowetting‐on‐dielectric (EWOD), recognized as the most successful electrical
droplet actuation method, is essential in diverse applications, ranging from thermal …

Image-based feedback and analysis system for digital microfluidics

PQN Vo, MC Husser, F Ahmadi, H Sinha, SCC Shih - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Digital microfluidics (DMF) is a technology that provides a means of manipulating nL–μL
volumes of liquids on an array of electrodes. By applying an electric potential to an …

[PDF][PDF] Adaptive droplet routing in digital microfluidic biochips using deep reinforcement learning

TC Liang, Z Zhong - Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on …, 2020 - par.nsf.gov
We present and investigate a novel application domain for deep reinforcement learning
(RL): droplet routing on digital microfluidic biochips (DMFBs). A DMFB, composed of a …

Microfluidic encryption of on-chip biochemical assays

SS Ali, M Ibrahim, O Sinanoglu… - … Circuits and Systems …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent security analysis of digital micro-fluidic biochips (DMFBs) has revealed that the
DMFB design flow is vulnerable to IP piracy, Trojan attacks, overproduction, and …