Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is hailed as one of the foundational materials for microfluidics.
Though a silicone‐based elastomer of many desirable properties, the emergence of …

Droplet-based microfluidic systems have been shown to be compatible with many chemical
and biological reagents and capable of performing a variety of operations that can be …

Droplet microfluidics generates and manipulates discrete droplets through immiscible
multiphase flows inside microchannels. Due to its remarkable advantages, droplet …

Drug development is a long process whose main content includes drug synthesis, drug
delivery, and drug evaluation. Compared with conventional drug development procedures …

Many crystallization processes of great importance, including frost heave, biomineralization,
the synthesis of nanomaterials, and scale formation, occur in small volumes rather than bulk …

The advent of glass-based microfluidic devices further revolutionized in microfluidic
technology due to the several advantageous properties in terms of photonics, electronics …

This review summarizes recent developments in microfluidic platform approaches. In
contrast to isolated application-specific solutions, a microfluidic platform provides a set of …

The manipulation of fluids in channels with dimensions of tens of micrometres—microfluidics—
has emerged as a distinct new field. Microfluidics has the potential to influence subject areas …

This article describes the process of formation of droplets and bubbles in microfluidic T-
junction geometries. At low capillary numbers break-up is not dominated by shear stresses …

Miniaturization can expand the capability of existing bioassays, separation technologies and
chemical synthesis techniques. Although a reduction in size to the micrometre scale will …