The New Era of Surface Microfluidics: Advances and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The area of surface microfluidics has emerged as an innovative technology for handling fluids at both the microscale and nanoscale, enabling precise manipulation of the fluids by means of surface tension, wettability gradients, and external actuation. Although this technology has mostly referred to the manipulation of drops by open-surface microfluidics, recent innovations have expanded on closed-channel microfluidic microsystems, thus unveiling opportunities for biosensing, spectroscopy, and microchip laboratory integration.

This Special Issue aims to highlight recent progress toward both open- and closed-channel surface microfluidics, including basic studies, creative microfabrication, and vast application areas. We invite the submission of original papers, communications, and reviews targeting areas including, but not limited to, those listed below:

• Open-surface microfluidics: digital microfluidics, capillary flow, drop-mediated manipulation, and wettability-mediated conduction.
• Closed-channel surface microfluidics: hybrid combinations that combine capillary phenomena, surface modification, and confined microchannels.
• Microscopic, biosensing, and other microfluidic interfaces: microfluidic interfaces using Raman spectroscopy, confocal imaging, and other microtechnologies.
• Microfabrication, surface modification, and modification: femtosecond laser processing, nanostructuring, and functional coating, aiming toward handling efficiency.
• New interdisciplinary areas and trends toward microtechnology: bio-analytical microfluidics, mechanobiology, and optofluoidics.
• Combining both open- and closed-channel approaches: this Special Issue aims to advance the field of surface microfluidics and apply it to biomedical diagnostics, sensing, and micro/nanofluidic engineering.

Dr. Navid Kashaninejad
Guest Editor

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