Recent Advances of Microfluidics for Biomedical Applications
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "B:Biology and Biomedicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 May 2024) | Viewed by 7065
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 84156-83111, Iran
Interests: miniaturization science (MEMS and NEMS) with emphasis on chemical and biological applications; microfabrication; bioMEMS; nanotechnology; CD-based fluidics
Interests: microfabrication; microfluidics; biosensors
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Dear Colleagues,
Microfluidics has been the topic of many studies ever since the early 1990s. After considerable advances, microfluidic lab-on-a-chip (LOC) and micro total analysis system (μTAS) devices represented a global market value of $15 billion in 2020, which is predicted to reach $25 billion in 2025, corresponding to annual growth of about 13%. Low reagent consumption, high surface volume ratio, rapid prototyping, portability, and cost-effective high-throughput biochemical assays are some of the advantages provided by microfluidics. This Special Issue focuses on microfluidic devices for biomedical applications. Accordingly, we seek to showcase original research papers, communications, and review articles with different applications of microfluidics in diagnostics, biosensors and biodevices, bioseparation, bioreactors, biomaterials and tissue engineering, industrial biotechnology, cell culture, and gene engineering. As a case in point, quantitative comparisons between the efficiency of microfluidic devices and conventional macroscale methods represent an attractive area of research that we would like to cover in this Special Issue.
We look forward to receiving your submissions!
Dr. Masoud Madadelahi
Prof. Dr. Marc Madou
Prof. Dr. Sergio Omar Martínez-Chapa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- microfluidics
- biomedicine
- biochemistry
- biotechnology
- microfabrication
- point of care
- lab-on-a-chip
- μTAS
- diagnostics
- microarrays
- genomics
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