The rapid development of micromanipulation technologies has opened exciting new
opportunities for the actuation, selection and assembly of a variety of non-biological and …

Digital microfluidics (DMF) is an emerging liquid-handling technology that enables
individual control over droplets on an open array of electrodes. These picoliter-to microliter …

The manipulation of small amounts of liquids has applications ranging from biomedical
devices to liquid transfer. Direct light-driven manipulation of liquids, especially when …

Using light to control liquid motion is a new paradigm for the actuation of microfluidic
systems. We review here the different principles and strategies to induce or control liquid …

Many engineering and industrial technologies as well as biological processes are closely
related to surface wettability. The control of surface wettability attracts much attention due to …

Superhydrophobic paper substrates were patterned with high surface energy black ink using
commercially available desktop printing technology. The shape and size of the ink islands …

Electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD) promises to be an important lab-on-a-chip approach for
effectively manipulating droplets with electric field-controlled surface tension. Droplets …

Electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD) has been extensively explored as an active-type
technology for small-scale liquid handling due to its several unique advantages, including …

Digital microfluidics is an elegant technique based on single droplets for the design,
composition, and manipulation of microfluidic systems. In digital microfluidics, especially in …

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 …