Microchip has long been studied and facilitated recent investigations in multiple biomedical
and material fields. The advances in functional materials triggered several leaps in the …

Micrometer-sized water-in-oil droplets (microdroplets) are attracting attention as carriers for
the high-throughput parallel analysis of trace samples. By confining trace amounts of water …

Micron-sized water-in-oil droplets (microdroplets) have been used for various biochemical
analyses. Many studies have been reported on immunoassays using microdroplets because …

Capillary-assisted flow is valuable for utilizing microfluidics-based electrical sensing
platforms at on-site locations by simplifying microfluidic operations and system construction; …

Digital bioassays have emerged as a new category of bioanalysis. However, digital
bioassays for membrane transporter proteins have not been well established yet despite …

Micro-reactor arrays enable highly sensitive and quantitative bioassays at a single-molecule
level. Accordingly, they are widely used for sensitive “digital” bioassays, eg, digital PCR and …

Fluorescence polarization (FP) assays are widely used to quantify biomolecules, and their
combination with microfluidic devices has the potential for application in onsite analysis …

Droplet microfluidics technologies have advanced rapidly, but enrichment in droplets has
still been difficult. To deterministically control the droplet enrichment, the water transport from …

In this study, a contactless, flexible, and interference-free light fueled method has been
developed to enhance the mixing between the ssDNA and dynabeads in a droplet, which …

The partitioning of water and tetramethylrhodamine-conjugated-10-residue oligopeptides
from the aqueous phase of microdroplets into Span 80 reverse micelles was observed by …