Recent Advances in Applications of Droplet Microfluidics

Micromachines

Wei-Lung Chou³  Pee-Yew Lee¹  Cing-Long Yang³  Wen-Ying Huang⁵  Yung-Sheng Lin²  Andrew deMello⁴ 

[1]Institute of Materials Engineering, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung 20224, Taiwan

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[3]Department of Chemical Engineering, National United University, Miaoli 36003, Taiwan

[4]Institute of Occupational Safety and Hazardous Prevention, Hungkuang University, Taichung 43302, Taiwan

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[7]Department of Applied Cosmetology, Hungkuang University, Taichung 43302, Taiwan

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关键词: droplet;    microfluidics;    applications;    detection;    imaging;    drug delivery;    diagnostics;    cell;   

DOI  :  10.3390/mi6091249

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Droplet-based microfluidics is a colloidal and interfacial system that has rapidly progressed in the past decade because of the advantages of low fabrication costs, small sample volumes, reduced analysis durations, high-throughput analysis with exceptional sensitivity, enhanced operational flexibility, and facile automation. This technology has emerged as a new tool for many recently used applications in molecular detection, imaging, drug delivery, diagnostics, cell biology and other fields. Herein, we review recent applications of droplet microfluidics proposed since 2013.

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