This review summarizes and compares the available surface treatment and bonding
techniques (eg, corona triggered surface activation, oxygen plasma surface activation …

Abstract Lab-on-a-chip (LOC) devices are broadly used for research in the life sciences and
diagnostics and represent a very fast moving field. LOC devices are designed, prototyped …

An electromechanical interface plays a pivotal role in determining the performance of a
stretchable strain sensor. The intrinsic mechanical property of the elastomer substrate …

Skin-mounted microfluidics devices have shown distinct advantages in sweat collection and
analysis platform due to their multiple sweat treatment including sample collection, flow …

This review discusses various bonding strategies for fabricating microfluidic devices, with a
special emphasis on the modification of the surface assisted by the use of chemicals to …

Numerous biological disciplines rely on high-throughput cell sorting. Flow cytometry, the
current gold standard, is capable of ultrahigh–throughput cell sorting, but measurements are …

In the last decades, the possibility to assess physiological states, monitor disease onset and
progression, as well as monitor post-treatment therapeutic outcomes through a non-invasive …

The present work reports on the development of a new generation of Lab-on-a-chip (LOC) to
perform in-situ and real-time potentiometric measurements in flowing water. The device …

The sterilization of microfluidic chips is a vital step of the fabrication process prior to the
customer use in biomedical applications. The aim of this study was to analyze the influence …

This study investigates surface chemical modification using anhydride silane and amino
silane reagents at room temperature (RT) to realize bonding between silicon-based PDMS …