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Micromachines, Volume 10, Issue 12

December 2019 - 93 articles

Cover Story: Flexible microfluidics is an emerging research area that will potentially bring a step change into chemistry, electronics, biology, and medicine. Large deformation of microchannels and strong fluid–structure interactions are examples of the distinct features of flexibility that may change the way microfluidic functions are implemented. A novel use of flexibility will allow unique solutions for valving, pumping, mixing, and separation. This paper discusses the fundamentals, materials, applications, and future perspectives of this exciting research area. View this paper
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Articles (93)

  • Feature Paper
  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,862 Views
12 Pages

17 December 2019

The majority of commercially oriented microfluidic technologies provide novel point-of-use solutions for laboratory automation with important areas in the context of the life sciences such as health care, biopharma, veterinary medicine and agrifood a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,324 Views
10 Pages

Experimental Study on Three-Dimensional Microstructure Copper Electroforming Based on 3D Printing Technology

  • Yuanyuan Wu,
  • Shuangqing Qian,
  • Hua Zhang,
  • Yong Zhang,
  • Hongbei Cao and
  • Mingyu Huang

17 December 2019

In order to fabricate three-dimensional metal microstructures, a combined machining process based on 3D printing technology and electroforming technology is proposed. Firstly, a substrate with microstructures is fabricated by 3D printing technology,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,122 Views
11 Pages

17 December 2019

Seed germination and seedling root development are important indicators of plant development. This work designed and fabricated a foldable microfluidic chip array for conducting nondestructive and continuous evaluation of seed germination and subsequ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,380 Views
13 Pages

17 December 2019

Along with the great performance in diagnosing cardiovascular diseases, current stethoscopes perform unsatisfactorily in controlling undesired noise caused by the surrounding environment and detector operation. In this case, a low-noise-level heart s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,700 Views
12 Pages

Local Acoustic Fields Powered Assembly of Microparticles and Applications

  • Hui Shen,
  • Kangdong Zhao,
  • Zhiwen Wang,
  • Xiaoyu Xu,
  • Jiayu Lu,
  • Wenjuan Liu and
  • Xiaolong Lu

16 December 2019

Controllable assembly in nano-/microscale holds considerable promise for bioengineering, intracellular manipulation, diagnostic sensing, and biomedical applications. However, up to now, micro-/nanoscopic assembly methods are severely limited by the f...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,167 Views
12 Pages

Microfluidic Array Chip for Parallel Detection of Waterborne Bacteria

  • Lena Gorgannezhad,
  • Kamalalayam Rajan Sreejith,
  • Jun Zhang,
  • Gregor Kijanka,
  • Melody Christie,
  • Helen Stratton and
  • Nam-Trung Nguyen

16 December 2019

The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a robust technique used to make multiple copies of a segment of DNA. However, the available PCR platforms require elaborate and time-consuming operations or costly instruments, hindering their application. Herei...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,842 Views
14 Pages

Electroosmotic Flow Behavior of Viscoelastic LPTT Fluid in a Microchannel

  • Dilin Chen,
  • Jie Li,
  • Haiwen Chen,
  • Lai Zhang,
  • Hongna Zhang and
  • Yu Ma

15 December 2019

In many research works, the fluid medium in electroosmosis is considered to be a Newtonian fluid, while the polymer solutions and biological fluids used in biomedical fields mostly belong to the non-Newtonian category. Based on the finite volume meth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
10,689 Views
11 Pages

Wireless, Skin-Mountable EMG Sensor for Human–Machine Interface Application

  • Min-Su Song,
  • Sung-Gu Kang,
  • Kyu-Tae Lee and
  • Jeonghyun Kim

14 December 2019

The development of advanced technologies for wireless data collection and the analysis of quantitative data, with application to a human–machine interface (HMI), is of growing interest. In particular, various wearable devices related to HMIs ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,949 Views
11 Pages

14 December 2019

To perform zebrafish larvae-related experiments within a microfluidic environment, the larvae need to be anesthetized and subsequently transported into respective test sections through mechanical or manual means. However, anesthetization tends to aff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,069 Views
10 Pages

13 December 2019

Herein, the optical field distribution and electrical property improvements of the InGaN laser diode with an emission wavelength around 416 nm are theoretically investigated by adjusting the relative thickness of the first or last barrier layer in th...

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