Fouling initiated by nonspecific protein adsorption is a great challenge in biomedical
applications, including biosensors, bioanalytical devices, and implants. Poly …

This review focuses on the attachment of polymer brushes to polymeric biomaterial
substrates by chemical surface modification methods for biomedical applications. In the first …

Fast advancements of microfabrication processes in past two decades have reached to a
fairly matured stage that we can manufacture a wide range of microfluidic devices. At …

The area of micro total analysis systems (μTAS), also called “lab on a chip”, miniaturized or
microfluidic analysis systems, is a rapidly developing field. During the last several years, we …

Microcontact printing (µCP) offers a simple and low‐cost surface patterning methodology
with high versatility and sub‐micrometer accuracy. The process has undergone a …

Spider silk threads are formed by the irreversible aggregation of silk proteins in a spinning
duct with dimensions of only a few micrometers. Here, we present a microfluidic device in …

Plant electrophysiology lays the foundation for smart plant interrogation and intervention.
However, plant trichomes with hair‐like morphologies present topographical features that …

Background Acoustophoresis has been utilized successfully in applications including cell
trapping, focusing, and purification. One current limitation of acoustophoresis for cell sorting …

Microfluidics is one of the most fascinating fields that researchers have been trying to apply
in a large number of scientific disciplines over the past two decades. Among them, the …

Ice nucleation was investigated experimentally in water droplets with diameters between 53
and 96 micrometres. The droplets were produced in a microfluidic device in which a flow of …