Advanced Microfluidic Chips and Their Applications

Dear Colleagues,

We are inviting contributions for this Special Issue covering advanced microfluidic lab-on-a-chip platforms and their wide range of applications.

Advanced microfluidic chips, with sampling, manipulation (mix, separation, purification, heating, reactions, etc.), and on-chip or off-chip detection functions, can be designed along with different integrated processing modules. These tools are useful for sample preparation, liquid handling, and cell/particle manipulation.

Along with relevant point-of-care testing (POCT) instruments, advanced microfluidic chips offer excellent and rapid, accurate, real-time, on-site, and multiplexed detections. Their applications have attracted increasing attention, especially for COVID-19 pathogen detection. Such instruments will be extensively adopted in both academic and industrial fields for healthcare, biochemistry, life science, food, water quality, etc.

This Special Issue aims to stimulate microfluidics development for POCT and provides the latest research results on microfluidic tools in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Biomedical microfluidics;
• Point-of-care testing (POCT);
• Miniaturized systems for chemistry and life sciences (MicroTAS);
• Pathogens;
• Biosensors;
• ddPCR and/or cdPCR;
• Antibody and/or antigens;
• Sampling;
• Manipulation;
• Separation and/or purification;
• Imaging and other detection technologies.

Dr. Shilun Feng
Prof. Dr. Jianlong Zhao
Guest Editors

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