Paper-based microfluidics is the branch of microfluidics involving devices made out of
paper, or other porous membranes, that wick fluids by capillary action. Paper-based …

Infectious diseases are a major global health issue. Diagnosis is a critical first step in
effectively managing their spread. Paper-based microfluidic diagnostics first emerged in …

Paper has been used as a substrate material in analytical testing for centuries, with scientific
reports dating back to the early 1800s with litmus paper. 1 As a substrate material, paper …

Paper is a versatile, flexible, porous, and eco-friendly substrate that is utilized in the
fabrication of low-cost devices and biosensors for rapid detection of analytes of interest …

Inkjet printing is emerging at the forefront of biosensor fabrication technologies. Parallel
advances in both ink chemistry and printers have led to a biosensor manufacturing …

Point-of-care devices were originally designed to allow medical testing at or near the point of
care by health-care professionals. Some point-of-care devices allow medical self-testing at …

Organ-on-chip devices have provided the pharmaceutical and tissue engineering worlds
much hope since they arrived and began to grow in sophistication. However, limitations for …

Paper-based microfluidic devices have advanced significantly in recent years as they are
affordable, automated with capillary action, portable, and biodegradable diagnostic …

In recent years, the exploitation of phenomena surrounding microfluidics has seen an
increase in popularity, as researchers have found a way to use their unique properties to …

Enzymes are still indispensable for bio-assaying methods in biomolecule detection by far.
The unsatisfied long-term instability, high cost, and susceptibility to the physical environment …