The origins and the future of microfluidics

By George M. Whitesides. Nature, 2006

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Microfluidic large-scale integration: the evolution of design rules for biological automation. (2007, background): “Numerous applications of microfluidics have been developed in chemistry, biology, and other fields (6, 7, 37, 49).”
The Emerging Frontiers and Applications of High-Resolution 3D Printing (2017, methodology): “Previously, the microfluidic systems are mainly prepared using conventional microfabrication methods, such as soft lithography, repli a molding, and microcontact printing technique [101,102].”
Optofluidic dye lasers (2008, methodology): “The development of microfluidics in the 1990s has created a powerful toolbox for manipulating liquids at the nanoliter scale or below (Whitesides 2006).”
Liposomes as nanomedical devices (2015, methodology): “Microfluidics is a method to manipulate liquid flows in channels with dimensions of tens to hundreds of micrometers.(35,36) The characteristic of laminar flow and rapid and tunable mixing has some advantages in liposome formation over traditional methods, such as thin-film hydration and reverse-phas”
3D printing: an emerging tool for novel microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip applications (2016, neutral): “…been revolutionizing many fields such as medicine, chemistry, and biotechnologies (Barry and Ivanov 2004; Beebe et al. 2002; Dittrich and Manz 2006; Hong and Quake 2003; Stone et al. 2004; Thorsen et al. 2002; Wang et al. 2009; Weibel and Whitesides 2006; Whitesides 2006; Xu 2014; Guo et al. 2015).”
Transport phenomena in nanofluidics (2008, neutral): “Squires and Quake, 2005; Whitesides, 2006".”