Microfluidics: Fluid physics at the nanoliter scale

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The origins and the future of microfluidics (2006, methodology): “Together with new methods of fabrication, microfluidics has been able to exploit certain fundamental differences between the physical properties of fluids moving in large channels and those travelling though micrometre-scale channel”
Induced-charge electrokinetic phenomena (2003, background): “The classical subject of electrokinetics (electrically driven fluid flow and particle motion) in liquid electrolytes, originally developed in colloid science [1, 2, 3], is experiencing a renaissance in microfluidics [4, 5, 6, 7, 8].”
Nanoemulsions: formation, structure, and physical properties (2006, background): “Consequently, hard lithographic microchannels would almost certainly be needed to approach the lower end of the nanoscale droplet regime [76].”
Small but Perfectly Formed? Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities for Microfluidics in the Chemical and Biological Sciences (2017, background): “In addition, relatively small viscous (capillary number, Ca) or inertial (Weber number, We) forces in comparison with interfacial forces allow for the precise ‘‘dripping’’ of drops with uniform size.(71) Small volumes of these ‘‘micro-droplets’’ or valved chambers that contain single cells or molecu”
Label-free cell separation and sorting in microfluidic systems (2010, background): “Nonintuitive fluid physics govern the microfluidic scale [23].”