Paper Microfluidics: Fundamental Studies and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Paper microfluidics is increasingly being used in a variety of scientific disciplines to examine a paucity of chemical and biological interactions. Microfluidic paper-based analytical devices (mPADs) have emerged as viable multiplexable platform with the potential to transcend existing techniques in resource-limited settings. Recently, great strides have been made by incorporating paper microfluidics technologies into microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) or “lab-on-a chip” (LOC) technologies in the pharmaceutical, defense, biotechnology, bioterrorism, and point-of-care (POC) diagnostic device industries. mPADs can be easily fabricated by patterning hydrophobic materials in hydrophilic paper. Paper has a number of advantages as a microfluidics platform due to its low cost and ability to wick aqueous fluids without the use of active pumping. Paper is also thin, lightweight, easy to stack, store, and transport, compatible with biological samples, and available in many forms with a wide range of properties. This Special Issue seeks to showcase research papers, short communications, and review articles that focus on novel methodological developments in paper microfluidics and their applications in a myriad of disciplines.

Prof. Frank A. Gomez
Prof. Carlos D. Garcia
Guest Editors

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