Microfluidics and Lab-on-a-Chip Applications for Biosensing
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "B:Biology and Biomedicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 24520
Special Issue Editors
2. ALiCE-Associate Laboratory in Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Interests: integration of microfluidic systems and molecular methods (e.g., fluorescence in situ hybridization, PCR) for rapid pathogen detection and automated analysis of results; microbiology; diagnostic methods; PNA-FISH; nucleic acid-based methods; biofilms; lab-on-a-chip devices
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Interests: lab-on-a-chip devices; biomimetic particles; droplet microfluidics; blood analogues; CFD
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Microfluidics and the lab-on-a-chip concept have been found to be crucial for the integration, parallelization, and miniaturization of various tests with widespread application in pharmaceutical and life science research and environmental, industrial, and food safety areas. Introducing miniaturization will favor versatility, ease-of-use, time-to-result, and cost per test, hence benefitting both society and the business sector.
As an example, the coverage of this concept is well reflected in the point-of-care molecular diagnostic market due to their small dimensions, accuracy, low cost, low power consumption, and portability.
Therefore, this Special Issue seeks to showcase research papers and review articles focusing on lab-on-a-chip devices, namely by:
(1) The development of novel designs for miniaturization, microfluidic devices and biosensors, using technological advances in nanomaterials and microthecnologies;
(2) The integration in targeting applications, including, but not exclusively to nucleic acid analysis, drug delivery, point-of-care diagnostics, cellular and molecular detection, biotechnology, and engineering.
Dr. Laura Cerqueira
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Lab-on-a-chip
- Point-of-care diagnostics
- Nucleic acid analysis
- Cellular and molecular detection
- Microfluidics
- Miniaturization
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