Flexible microfluidics: Fundamentals, recent developments, and applications

H Fallahi, J Zhang, HP Phan, NT Nguyen - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Miniaturization has been the driving force of scientific and technological advances over
recent decades. Recently, flexibility has gained significant interest, particularly in …

Rapid prototyping polymers for microfluidic devices and high pressure injections

E Sollier, C Murray, P Maoddi, D Di Carlo - Lab on a Chip, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Multiple methods of fabrication exist for microfluidic devices, with different advantages
depending on the end goal of industrial mass production or rapid prototyping for the …

Stretchable ITO‐free organic solar cells with intrinsic anti‐reflection substrate for high‐efficiency outdoor and indoor energy harvesting

J Huang, Z Ren, Y Zhang, K Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Flexible photovoltaic devices are promising candidates for triggering the Internet of Things
(IoT). However, the power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of flexible organic photovoltaic …

Mass production system for RNA-loaded lipid nanoparticles using piling up microfluidic devices

M Maeki, Y Okada, S Uno, K Sugiura, Y Suzuki… - Applied Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microfluidic devices are widely used in lipid nanoparticle (LNP)-based vaccines and
nanomedicine research. These devices should be stiff enough to withstand the high flow …

Self-driven jamming in growing microbial populations

M Delarue, J Hartung, C Schreck, P Gniewek, L Hu… - Nature physics, 2016 - nature.com
In natural settings, microbes tend to grow in dense populations,,, where they need to push
against their surroundings to accommodate space for new cells. The associated contact …

Flow-induced stress on adherent cells in microfluidic devices

J Shemesh, I Jalilian, A Shi, GH Yeoh, MLK Tate… - Lab on a Chip, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Transduction of mechanical forces and chemical signals affect every cell in the human body.
Fluid flow in systems such as the lymphatic or circulatory systems modulates not only cell …

Viscoelasticity of blood and viscoelastic blood analogues for use in polydymethylsiloxane in vitro models of the circulatory system

L Campo-Deaño, R Dullens, DGAL Aarts, FT Pinho… - …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
The non-Newtonian properties of blood are of great importance since they are closely
related with incident cardiovascular diseases. A good understanding of the hemodynamics …

Microchannel deformations due to solvent-induced PDMS swelling

R Dangla, F Gallaire, CN Baroud - Lab on a Chip, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
The compatibility of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) channels with certain solvents is a well
known problem of soft lithography techniques, in particular when it leads to the swelling of …

Nonlinear microfluidics: device physics, functions, and applications

HM Xia, JW Wu, JJ Zheng, J Zhang, ZP Wang - Lab on a Chip, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The microfluidic flow is typically laminar due to the dominant viscous effects. At Reynolds
numbers far below 1 (Re≪ 1), the fluid inertia can be neglected. For the steady flow of …

[HTML][HTML] Print-and-stick unibody microfluidics coupled surface plasmon resonance (SPR) chip for smartphone imaging SPR (Smart-iSRP)

C Xiao, J Eriksson, A Suska, D Filippini, WC Mak - Analytica Chimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
The design of a smartphone imaging surface plasmon resonance (Smart-iSPR) system
integrated with an affordable 3D-printed microfluidic SPR chip fabricated via a facile …