Emulsions have gained significant importance in many industries including foods,
pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, health care formulations, paints, polymer blends and oils …

Over the past six decades the inflation-adjusted cost to bring a new drug to market has been
increasing constantly and doubles every 9 years–now reaching in excess of $2.5 billion …

In this paper a high-temperature polydimethylsiloxane (HT-PDMS) flexible substrate is
fabricated and surface engineering of it for flexible electronic applications is reported. The …

Water-in-oil-in-water (w/o/w) double emulsion (DE) encapsulation has been widely used as
a promising platform technology for various applications in the fields of food, cosmetics …

Digital nucleic acid amplification technologies (dNAATs) have become an emerging platform
for pathogen detection. It is not only suitable for the absolute quantitative analysis of target …

Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) is a DNA amplification approach
characterized by high sensitivity and specificity. In “digital LAMP”, small quantities of both …

We report on a simple approach for in-channel functionalization of a polydimethylsiloxane
(PDMS) surface to obtain a switchable and reversible wettability change between …

Plasma processing finds widespread biomedical applications, such as the design of
biosensors, antibiofouling surfaces, controlled drug delivery systems, and in plasma …

Developing the fundamentals for the electrical diagnostics of surface dielectric barrier
discharges (SDBDs) is of enormous importance for several applications, for example flow …

Microfluidic devices can be used to produce single, double and higher order emulsions,
where droplet sizes can be precisely controlled and modulated. Such emulsions have great …