Polymer-Based Microfluidics
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "B：Biology and Biomedicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 3296
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Interests: manufacturing of microfluidic systems; microfluidic technology with life sciences and analytical chemistry
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Interests: microfluidics; fluid mechanics; wettability; biomimetics; micro/nanorobots
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Early microfluidics usually used silicon or glass materials with fabrication methods inherited from the MEMS field; however, to lower the instrument and material costs, polymer materials have been widely used in the recent two decades. Both elastomers, such as PDMS, and thermoplastics, such as PMMA, COC, COP, and PS, are now used in polymer microfluidics with the advantages of being low-cost and easy-to-process as well as their widely available physical/chemical properties. Polymer-based microfluidic devices are also widely adopted in commercial POCT products and most flexible microfluidics are also polymer-based. Polymer-based microfluidics have been widely used in various applications including biomedical devices, soft robotics, and chemical synthesis.
In this Special Issue, we seek to invite the most up-to-date studies on a wide range of polymer microfluidics and their applications including, but not limited to, innovative polymer materials used in microfluidics; new fabrication/processing methods for polymer microfluidics; 3D printing approaches for polymer microfluidics; characterization of the performance of polymer materials in microfluidics; chemical resistance/biocompatibility of the polymer materials used in microfluidics; surface modification methods for polymer microfluidics; integration of polymer parts on the microfludics, such as integration of membranes as enrichment part on microfluidics, polymer-based flexible substrate microfluidics for wearable applications, polymer-based photonics for the detections; and flexible microfluidics and polymer microfluidics applications in various fields.
Prof. Dr. Yiqiang Fan
Dr. Pingan Zhu
Dr. Jiaming Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- microfluidics
- polymer microfluidics
- PDMS
- PMMA
- COC
- microfabrication
- flexible microfluidics
- wearable devices
- soft robotics
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