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Technology Research News June 4, 2003	Microfluidics go nonlinear Researchers from the California Institute of Technology and the University of California at San Diego have constructed computer-logic-like circuits that control the flow of fluid through a chamber rather than the flow of electricity through a solid.
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Reactive Reports David Bradley	Integrated Biochips A new microfluidic device that can perform sample preparation, polymerase chain reaction, and microarray detection functions on a single device has been developed by US researchers.
Technology Research News March 10, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Tiny pumps drive liquid circuits Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories have combined microfluidics and organic electronics to make a tunable plastic transistor that could enable low-cost methods to drive, control and monitor labs-on-a-chip. The device can also use tiny amounts of fluid to adjust optical devices.
Scientific American October 17, 2005 Charles Q. Choi	Transistor Flow Control At the heart of modern electronics are transistors, which act like valves to direct the flow of electrons. Now researchers have created the first transistors that electrically control molecules instead.
Chemistry World October 1, 2014 Katrina Kramer	Microfluidics for the masses US scientists have developed a series of microfluidic building blocks that allow researchers to construct devices by assembling the components like Lego.
Chemistry World June 12, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Imploding Bubbles Mix Fluids on a Chip Fluids traveling through micro channels could be mixed together by being whipped into a laser-induced froth, say researchers. Their technique may provide a simple way to control chemical reactions in a lab-on-a-chip.
Technology Research News December 17, 2003 Eric Smalley	Microfluidics make flat screens A new method for making big, cheap flat screen displays is a bit like making muffins. Pour liquid polymer into microfluidic channels aligned above an array of electrodes, let cure, and you have organic thin film transistors.
Technology Research News December 3, 2003 Eric Smalley	Biochip puts it all together Researchers have made all manner of microfluidic machines, but have yet to come up with cheap, mass-producible biochips for handheld medical and environmental testing. A simple plastic chip puts the necessary pieces together. The $7 device tests blood samples for the presence of E. coli bacteria.
Chemistry World May 30, 2013 Helen Bache	Microfluidic sugar paper Researchers in the US have demonstrated that the speed of fluid in a paper microfluidic device can be controlled by sugar solutions dried onto the paper.
Chemistry World April 25, 2007 Victoria Gill	Nanoscale Scales Scientists at MIT have designed a device able to accurately weigh single nanoparticles within a liquid. The new technique is based on the ultra-sensitive mass detection made possible by nanomechanical resonators.
Technology Research News July 2, 2003	Printing method makes biochips University of Illinois researchers have fabricated tiny, three-dimensional fluidic networks that promise to reduce the size of biochips.
Technology Research News October 6, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Fluid chip does binary logic Researchers are working to combine many gates to make a microfluidic computing system. The technology could lead to inexpensive, easily-manufacturerd handheld labs-on-a-chip that do not require control electronics.
Technology Research News May 4, 2005 Eric Smalley	Chip Gauges Cell Reactions Researchers have devised a way to test within minutes the reactions of cells to all types of stimuli. The researchers' system is very sensitive, relatively inexpensive, uses little power, and is portable.
Chemistry World October 2, 2014 Susannah May	Oil reserves put under the microscope with new lab-on-a-rock Scientists in Canada have developed a new microfluidic model carved from rock, which can replicate the conditions found in underground oil reservoirs in a laboratory with more accuracy than ever before.
Technology Research News April 9, 2003	Nanoscale rubber hoses debut Researchers from Cornell University have found a way to fabricate flexible tubes whose diameters are 100 nanometers. The tubes could be used to make stacked, interconnected fluidic networks designed to shunt fluids around biochips that sense and analyze chemicals.
Chemistry World February 8, 2007 Tom Westgate	Bubbles Put the Logic Into Lab-on-a-Chip The boundary between computing and chemistry has been redrawn, thanks to devices that mimic digital processors using the physical properties of flowing liquids and bubbles.
Technology Research News January 26, 2005 Kimberly Patch	Braille Display Drives Biochip What do you get when you cross microscopic fluid-filled channels, computers, and Braille?
Chemistry World December 22, 2009 Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay	SlipChip serves up protein crystals A simple microfluidic device requiring no pumps or valves can be used to screen for suitable protein crystallisation conditions, claim US researchers.
Chemistry World November 10, 2011 Francesca Burgoyne	Micro fuel cells for microchips Researchers from Spain and Germany have designed the first microfluidic device with an integrated micro fuel cell that is capable of both powering the device and pumping the analyte around the device.
Chemistry World September 15, 2011 Tamsin Phillips	Corn Microchips US scientists have made microfluidic devices from a corn by-product, which makes them biodegradable and environmentally friendly.
Chemistry World January 7, 2014 Cally Haynes	Device runs on finger power Researchers in the US have demonstrated that mechanical energy from a human hand can power a microfluidic device.
Bio-IT World Dec 2005/Jan 2006 Robert M. Frederickson	Labcyte Demonstrates 'Sound' Transfer As mundane as the topic of fluid management may seem, it is big business. And this developer of microfluidic systems' new technology is well suited to high-throughput biological applications where large numbers of different fluids must be transferred rapidly and sequentially.
Industrial Physicist Aug/Sep 2003 Jennifer Ouellette	A new wave of microfluidic devices Flexibility and a variety of uses are the key
Chemistry World March 22, 2006 Clare E Boothby	Going with the Flow Researchers say they can overcome the problems of modelling flow in fluids like mayonnaise, engine oil and snow by taking thixotropy into account. This insight may help to model fluid flow in avalanches and landslides.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005	Rad-Hard Solid-State Relays for High-Reliability Systems International Rectifier is offering four radiation-hardened solid-state relays for high-reliability (hi-rel) applications. The new hermetically sealed relays are all-electronic devices designed to replace electro-mechanical relays in power bus switching, heater-control circuits, battery charging, and other hi-rel applications.