[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 …

Point-of-need DNA testing for detection of foodborne pathogenic bacteria

J Vidic, P Vizzini, M Manzano, D Kavanaugh… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Foodborne pathogenic bacteria present a crucial food safety issue. Conventional diagnostic
methods are time-consuming and can be only performed on previously produced food. The …

Digital droplet PCR on disk

F Schuler, M Trotter, M Geltman, F Schwemmer… - Lab on a Chip, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Existing systems for digital droplet PCR (ddPCR) either suffer from low integration or are
difficult to introduce to mass fabrication. Here we present an integrated system that is …

Recent advances in thermoplastic microfluidic bonding

K Giri, CW Tsao - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Microfluidics is a multidisciplinary technology with applications in various fields, such as
biomedical, energy, chemicals and environment. Thermoplastic is one of the most prominent …

Simple approaches to minimally-instrumented, microfluidic-based point-of-care nucleic acid amplification tests

MG Mauk, J Song, C Liu, HH Bau - Biosensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Designs and applications of microfluidics-based devices for molecular diagnostics (Nucleic
Acid Amplification Tests, NAATs) in infectious disease testing are reviewed, with emphasis …

Rapid microfluidics prototyping through variotherm desktop injection molding for multiplex diagnostics

GD Suarez, S Bayer, YYK Tang, DA Suarez… - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work, we demonstrate an inexpensive method of prototyping microfluidics using a
desktop injection molding machine. A centrifugal microfluidic device with a novel central …

Recent lab‐on‐chip developments for novel drug discovery

N Khalid, I Kobayashi… - … Reviews: Systems Biology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and micro total analysis systems (μTAS)
revolutionized the biochemical and electronic industries, and this miniaturization process …

Bonding of thermoplastic microfluidics by using dry adhesive tape

CW Tsao, WC Syu - RSC advances, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
In this study, we investigated the effects of adhesive tape structure, adhesive tape thickness
(30, 60, and 80 μm), and bonding time (5 and 15 seconds) on the bonding of inflexible and …

The fabrication and bonding of thermoplastic microfluidics: A review

A Shakeri, S Khan, NA Jarad, TF Didar - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Various fields within biomedical engineering have been afforded rapid scientific
advancement through the incorporation of microfluidics. As literature surrounding biological …

3D printed tooling for injection molded microfluidics

N Convery, I Samardzhieva… - Macromolecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Microfluidics have been used for several decades to conduct a wide range of research in
chemistry and the life sciences. The reduced dimensions of these devices give them …