An outlook on microfluidics: the promise and the challenge

S Battat, DA Weitz, GM Whitesides - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
This perspective considers ways in which the field of microfluidics can increase its impact by
improving existing technologies and enabling new functionalities. We highlight applications …

Mechanical computing

H Yasuda, PR Buskohl, A Gillman, TD Murphey… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Mechanical mechanisms have been used to process information for millennia, with famous
examples ranging from the Antikythera mechanism of the Ancient Greeks to the analytical …

Fully 3D-printed soft robots with integrated fluidic circuitry

JD Hubbard, R Acevedo, KM Edwards… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The emergence of soft robots has presented new challenges associated with controlling the
underlying fluidics of such systems. Here, we introduce a strategy for additively …

Digital logic for soft devices

DJ Preston, P Rothemund, HJ Jiang… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Although soft devices (grippers, actuators, and elementary robots) are rapidly becoming an
integral part of the broad field of robotics, autonomy for completely soft devices has only …

3D printed microfluidics and microelectronics

RD Sochol, E Sweet, CC Glick, SY Wu, C Yang… - Microelectronic …, 2018 - Elsevier
Submillimeter-scale domains offer wide-ranging benefits for chemical and biological fields,
which have motivated researchers to develop a diversity of strategies for manufacturing …

3D-printed microfluidic automation

AK Au, N Bhattacharjee, LF Horowitz, TC Chang… - Lab on a Chip, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Microfluidic automation–the automated routing, dispensing, mixing, and/or separation of
fluids through microchannels–generally remains a slowly-spreading technology because …

3D printed microfluidic circuitry via multijet-based additive manufacturing

RD Sochol, E Sweet, CC Glick, S Venkatesh… - Lab on a Chip, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The miniaturization of integrated fluidic processors affords extensive benefits for chemical
and biological fields, yet traditional, monolithic methods of microfabrication present …

Fluidic computation kit: Towards electronic-free shape-changing interfaces

Q Lu, H Xu, Y Guo, JY Wang, L Yao - … of the 2023 CHI Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Although fluidic computation has been utilized to develop interactive devices in the field of
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), the limited computation complexity of previous work …

Artificial intelligence in regenerative medicine: applications and implications

H Nosrati, M Nosrati - Biomimetics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The field of regenerative medicine is constantly advancing and aims to repair, regenerate, or
substitute impaired or unhealthy tissues and organs using cutting-edge approaches such as …

[HTML][HTML] A review on continuous-flow microfluidic PCR in droplets: Advances, challenges and future

Y Zhang, HR Jiang - Analytica chimica acta, 2016 - Elsevier
Significant advances have been made in developing microfluidic polymerase chain reaction
(PCR) devices in the last two decades. More recently, microfluidic microdroplet technology …