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3D Printing Revolution: From Microelectronics to Microfluidics.This image illustrates the transformative ... for the layer-by-layer fabrication of intricate designs directly from digital models.
The review starts by introducing droplet microfluidics and its applications in single-cell analysis. Technologies such as ...
These devices utilize microfluidic technology to handle small fluid volumes. Digital Microfluidics is a sub-field of microfluidics which allows for the manipulation of discrete micro-droplets, ...
In 2013, Folch serendipitously received a brochure advertising a three-dimensional (3D) printed microfluidic device. It opened his eyes to the digital manufacturing of microfluidic devices. “People ...
Originally developed in the Wheeler lab, the DropBot system is an open-source project that works towards making digital microfluidic devices more accessible. We first visited the Wheeler lab at the ...
By incorporating electrodes into a chip, these droplets can be manipulated and positioned where required, thus providing a digital microfluidic device. Such an approach has been utilized to ...
MIRO CANVAS uses digital microfluidics to execute sample preparation stages within a single MIRO cartridge. Samples and reagents are pipetted into the cartridge, and the microfluidics system ...
He earned his Doctorate in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto for his work characterizing the motion and mixing of droplets in Digital Microfluidic ...
A research paper by scientists at Beijing Institute of Technology and City University of Hong Kong presented a versatile electrodynamics simulation model designed to analyze the driving forces of ...
Microfluidics (also called 'lab-on-chip') has been touted as a means to miniaturize biology and chemistry on tiny, hand-held devices (see picture). There are numerous advantages with microfluidics ...
Using cell-free protein synthesis, digital microfluidics, and optimized additive screening, eProtein Discovery can express and purify functional, correctly folded membrane proteins, in 48 hours.
Researchers show how 3D printing enables sub-micron precision in microelectronics and microfluidics, offering a flexible alternative ... by-layer fabrication of intricate designs directly from digital ...