Advances in Microfluidics and Lab on a Chip Technology

Dear Colleagues,

There are currently numerous developed lab-on-a-chip (LOC) technologies, and they continue to find newer applications. Medicine, pharmacy, chemistry, biology, and biotechnology are the areas that traditionally benefit the most from LOC applications, but environmental protection, food science, and power engineering represent emerging areas for microfluidic device application. Industrialization and commercialization present the biggest challenges for LOC technologies, which are now reinforced by novel fabrication and prototyping technologies, such as 3D printing and laser processing and smart, bioinspired, and nanoengineered materials, and boosted by computational fluid dynamics (CFD)-based performance optimizations. In this Special Issue, we aim to present and review the latest developments in LOC technology and related techniques that bring microfluidics closer to the market. Interdisciplinary works from various disciplines of science are particularly welcome, especially when they combine experimental research on LOC with in-depth process analysis and mathematical modeling. We are waiting your submission.

Dr. Roman Grzegorz Szafran
Prof. Dr. Yi Yang
Topic Editors