Dear Colleagues,

Over the past 2–3 decades, there has been tremendous growth in the sophistication, performance, and robustness of diverse microfluidic technologies for chemical analysis. Microfluidic techniques offer significant advantages over their conventional counterparts, including vastly reduced sample and reagent consumption, shorter analysis times, higher detection sensitivity, and increased multiplexing or parallelism.

Another key feature of microfluidics is the ability to integrate multiple system components into a single device, which reduces the need for bulky external actuators and detectors, enabling extremely compact overall system size and low cost. This is particularly important for chemical analysis applications in the “field” (e.g., detecting of pollutants or chemical warfare agents in the environment, monitoring safety and quality of food, etc.) or at the “point of care” (e.g., performing clinical diagnostic tests, testing safety of preparations of short-lived radiopharmaceuticals, etc.). Integration also paves the way to fully-automated analysis, enabling operation in remote locations or hazardous environments, and enabling operation by non-chemists.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to showcase recent novel developments in microfluidic chemical analysis systems, with particular focus on technologies or applications that demonstrate a high degree of compactness, portability, or automation.

Prof. Dr. R. Michael van Dam
Guest Editor

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• micro total analysis systems
• lab on a chip
• chemical analysis
• chemical separation
• chemical detection
• microfluidic integration
• point-of-care testing
• in-the-field testing