Microfluidic Flow Cells: Modelling and Experiments
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "B：Biology and Biomedicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 7630
Special Issue Editor
Interests: computational biomedical modelling; blood flow modelling; cell membrane modelling; cell biomechanics; lattice-Boltzmann method; cell manipulation microfluidics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Microfluidics has been widely adopted by biological and biomedical research fields, including but not limited to lateral flow tests, mixing, or cell sorting. Due to the very nature of the problems, in the design phase, the microfluidic applications may greatly benefit from simulations. Additionally, computational models of fluidic systems involving the flow of cells and their manipulation may lead to computer-aided discovery. Models cannot replace experiments with real cells, but they can demonstrate whether or not a proposed mechanism is sufficient to produce an observed phenomenon.
For the successful development and use of computational models of cell flow, a robust validation phase—often based on data from real biological experiments—must be provided for each model. Later, the results of the computations are often used for the design of further experiments. In any case, computational models of biological cells must be tightly linked to real biological experiments with cells.
To make this link, it is crucial to have very detailed information about the models as well as about the experiments. This Special Issue seeks to showcase research papers, short communications, and review articles that focus on all aspects of the relation between the cell computational models and the real biological experiments. In addition to the papers dealing with the development and application of computational models, we also encourage the publication of works that deal solely with experiments. Such papers should however contain detailed information on the experimental setup, including fluidic settings.
Prof. Dr. Ivan Cimrák
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Blood cell models
- Tumor cell models
- Microfluidics
- Cell manipulation
- Cell sorting
- Cell flow experimental data
