Application of Coatings and Films in Microfluidics for Sensors
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Coatings for Biomedicine and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 190
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fiber optic sensor; lab on a chip; biochemical sensor; biochemical sensitive coating; microfluidic sensor chip
Interests: biochemical sensor; biochemical sensitive coating; fiber optic sensor; optofluidics; microfluidics
Interests: lab on a chip; biochemical sensor; analytical chemistry; cell separation; microfluidics
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Dear Colleagues,
The combination of functionalized coatings or films and microfluidic technology holds promising potential in dealing with the issues of small volume, high sensitivity, and high specificity in the field of biochemical detection for disease diagnosis and environmental monitoring. Microfluidic technology can manipulate biochemical samples in a desired manner with the advantages of miniaturization and low sample consumption. Functionalized coatings and films can easily be engineered in microfluidic technology to realize the efficient detection of various biochemical samples by modifying the coatings or films on the sensor structures, internal channel walls, electrode surfaces etc. This Special Issue focuses on the application of coatings and films in microfluidics for sensors, and it aims to make new contributions to disease diagnosis and environmental monitoring. Therefore, it is very important to investigate the application of functionalized coatings and films in microfluidics for the development of novel biochemical sensors.
In this Special Issue, we welcome contributions from all original research and review articles that focus on the synthesis, design, modeling, manufacturing, simulation, and characterization of novel sensors by combining functionalized coatings or films with microfluidics.
Dr. Xiaoming Chen
Dr. Xuguang Hu
Dr. Yupan Wu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- functionalized coating
- functionalized film
- microfluidics
- biochemical sensors
- microchannel
- fiber optic sensor
- lab on a chip
- microfluidic sensor device
- microstructures
- microelectrodes
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