Fabrication methods for microfluidic devices: An overview

SM Scott, Z Ali - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Microfluidic devices offer the potential to automate a wide variety of chemical and biological
operations that are applicable for diagnostic and therapeutic operations with higher …

3D printed microfluidics: advances in strategies, integration, and applications

R Su, F Wang, MC McAlpine - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The ability to construct multiplexed micro-systems for fluid regulation could substantially
impact multiple fields, including chemistry, biology, biomedicine, tissue engineering, and soft …

Current and emerging trends in polymeric 3D printed microfluidic devices

G Gonzalez, I Roppolo, CF Pirri, A Chiappone - Additive Manufacturing, 2022 - Elsevier
During the last two decades, 3D printing technology has emerged as a valid alternative for
producing microfluidic devices. 3D printing introduces new strategies to obtain high …

[HTML][HTML] 30 years of microfluidics

N Convery, N Gadegaard - Micro and Nano Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Microfluidics provides a great opportunity to create devices capable of outperforming
classical techniques in biomedical and chemical research. In this review, the origins of this …

3D printed microfluidics

AV Nielsen, MJ Beauchamp, GP Nordin… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Traditional microfabrication techniques suffer from several disadvantages, including the
inability to create truly three-dimensional (3D) architectures, expensive and time-consuming …

A robot-assisted acoustofluidic end effector

J Durrer, P Agrawal, A Ozgul, SCF Neuhauss… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Liquid manipulation is the foundation of most laboratory processes. For macroscale liquid
handling, both do-it-yourself and commercial robotic systems are available; however, for …

Microfluidic integration of regeneratable electrochemical affinity-based biosensors for continual monitoring of organ-on-a-chip devices

J Aleman, T Kilic, LS Mille, SR Shin, YS Zhang - Nature Protocols, 2021 - nature.com
Organs-on-chips have emerged as viable platforms for drug screening and personalized
medicine. While a wide variety of human organ-on-a-chip models have been developed …

Vat photopolymerization 3D printed microfluidic devices for organ-on-a-chip applications

LA Milton, MS Viglione, LJY Ong, GP Nordin, YC Toh - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Organs-on-a-chip, or OoCs, are microfluidic tissue culture devices with micro-scaled
architectures that repeatedly achieve biomimicry of biological phenomena. They are well …

In-situ transfer vat photopolymerization for transparent microfluidic device fabrication

Y Xu, F Qi, H Mao, S Li, Y Zhu, J Gong, L Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
While vat photopolymerization has many advantages over soft lithography in fabricating
microfluidic devices, including efficiency and shape complexity, it has difficulty achieving …

3D printing: an alternative microfabrication approach with unprecedented opportunities in design

HK Balakrishnan, F Badar, EH Doeven… - Analytical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
In the past decade, 3D printing technologies have been adopted for the fabrication of
microfluidic devices. Extrusion-based approaches including fused filament fabrication (FFF) …