Journal
JOURNAL OF MICROMECHANICS AND MICROENGINEERING
Volume 32, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6439/ac545f
Keywords
droplet microfluidics; active control; modular system
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- Natural Science Engineering Research Council Canada [RGPIN-2018-04151]
- NSERC CGS-D scholarship
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Microfluidics has made significant progress as a field, but its independent use by end-users is still limited. This review aims to explore the potential of microfluidics as a tool for application-focused research and proposes a modular automated platform to lower the knowledge barrier for end-users. The analysis focuses on active microfluidics and its potential for end-users to conduct independent research in areas such as cell assays, biochemistry, materials, and environmental factors monitoring.
Microfluidics has progressed tremendously as a field over the last two decades. Various areas of microfluidics developed in fully-fledged domains of their own such as organ-on-a-chip, digital and paper microfluidics. Nevertheless, the technological advancement of microfluidics as a field has not yet reached end-users for independent use. This is the key objective that is kept as a lens throughout this review. The ultimate goal is for microfluidics to be simply considered as a tool for application-focused research. A modular automated platform is envisioned to provide the stacking and modularity required to lower the knowledge barrier for end-users. The literature considered in this review is limited to active microfluidics and the analysis focuses on the potential for end-users to independently leverage the platforms for research in various fields such as cell assays, biochemistry, materials, and environmental factors monitoring.
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