Microfluidics for Environmental Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

With continuously growing anthropogenic activities resulting from worldwide civilization and industrialization, environmental pollution has become a global threat nowadays. As a result, great efforts have been made to develop effective techniques for environmental monitoring and assessment that aim to determine current environmental conditions, track trends and suggest potential solutions for environmental pollution. In particular, microfluidic technologies hold great promise in this regard, especially for in situ and real-time assessment when conventional laboratory methods based on bulky equipment are not readily accessible. At present, the focus of microfluidic environmental monitoring has been given to a wide spectrum of applications including air monitoring, water monitoring, waste monitoring, and advanced monitoring based on remote sensing and artificial intelligence. In addition, emerging microfluidic technologies such as paper-based microfluidics, 3D printed microfluidics, automated microfluidics, digital microfluidics, acoustofluidics and magnetofluidics have also been extensively explored for this purpose. Thus, this Special Issue of Micromachines on “Microfluidics for Environmental Monitoring” is dedicated to the collection of state-of-the-art work on the field of environmental monitoring using microfluidic or lab-on-a-chip technologies. Short communications with originality on relevant topics, review articles, and full research papers, from both industry and academia, are warmly welcomed.

Look forward to receiving your submissions!

Dr. Yang Lin
Guest Editor

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