Recent Advances in Droplet Microfluidics
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "B：Biology and Biomedicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 75
Special Issue Editors
Interests: droplet microfluidics; cell separation; inertial microfluidics; CTC separation and detection; dielectrophoresis; point-of-care testing (POCT) devices
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As an important research direction of microfluidics, droplet microfluidics has become a powerful tool for sensitive and high-throughput analysis and manipulation of single cells and biomacromolecules. Through using droplet microfluidics, cells and biomacromolecules could be encapsulated into a large number of individual monodisperse droplets in a rapid time. Different from microwells or microtraps with limited numbers and fixed volumes, volumes of the generated droplets could be controlled in the femto- to nano-liter range by adjusting the flow rates and the throughput of droplet generation could be up to the frequency of kHz. These features of droplet microfluidics avoid the cross-contamination, reduce the reagent consumption, and improve the detection sensitivity. Besides the encapsulation of cells and biomacromolecules, various interesting functions including droplet sorting, merging, trapping, and mixing have been realized in droplet microfluidics, enabling different biomedical applications.
Scope of the Special Issue:
- Fundamentals of droplet microfluidics
- New functions realized by droplet microfluidics
- Novel applications of droplet microfluidics
- Fabrication and integration methods for creating droplet microfluidics
- Point-of-care testing (POCT) devices based on droplet microfluidics
This Special Issue aims to highlight the most recent advances of droplet microfluidics. Reviews and original research papers are all welcome.
Prof. Dr. Nan Xiang
Prof. Dr. Shanshan Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- droplet microfluidics
- cell manipulation and analysis
- point-of-care testing devices
- biomedical applications
