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Chemistry World November 19, 2007 Jonathan Edwards |
Sorting Droplets Digitally Scientists in Hong Kong have developed a lab-on-a-chip device that can separate and identify picolitre droplets quickly, cheaply and accurately.  |
Chemistry World October 20, 2011 Tegan Thomas |
Bubble Trouble Eliminated in Cancer Treatment US scientists have developed a microfluidic device to manufacture droplets of a specific size at high speed for a cancer treatment called embolisation.  |
Chemistry World September 16, 2013 Megan Tyler |
Reprogrammable microfluidic chips The time-consuming and costly manufacturing processes required to construct microfluidic devices, makes the idea of a reprogrammable chip very attractive.  |
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.  |
Chemistry World November 27, 2014 Megan Tyler |
Femtofluidic droplet manipulation now possible We've had microfluidics. We've even had nanofluidics. But now, scientists have gone a step smaller by pushing femtofluidics into the realms of possibility.  |
Chemistry World January 7, 2011 Jennifer Newton |
Microfluidic pinball A device to deposit polymer layers on oil droplets has been made by researchers from Singapore, who say that their design is faster and more efficient than conventional deposition techniques and uses microfluidics.  |
Chemistry World April 27, 2011 Harriet Brewerton |
Multiple emulsion droplet design Liang-Yin Chu at Sichuan University and colleagues have designed a microfluidic device capable of producing multi-compartment multiple emulsions.  |
Technology Research News February 25, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Biochip makes droplet test tubes Researchers who are developing biochips are taking two distinct approaches in devising ways to shunt tiny amounts of liquids around. One focuses on finding ways to form microscopic channels and tiny mechanical pumps. The other is aimed at using electricity to maneuver tiny droplets on surfaces.  |
Chemistry World April 15, 2014 Abigail Hallowes |
Toilet flushes could help power homes Researchers in South Korea have devised a way to harness the motion of water, including from raindrops or from a flushing toilet, as a sustainable energy source.  |
Chemistry World February 22, 2013 Anthony King |
LED triggers microfluidic mixing French scientists have developed a way to mix fluids in microfluidic devices using light from an external LED as a trigger. The strategy is simple but offers good control over mixing without complex components.  |
Chemistry World October 25, 2013 James Urquhart |
Water droplets warped into weird shapes US scientists have discovered that self-assembling nanoparticles can lock water droplets into different shapes. The team suggests the work could be useful for several applications including microfluidic devices, sensors and drug delivery.  |
Chemistry World June 26, 2007 Lionel Milgrom |
Mimicking Biophysics with Water Droplets Scientists have micro-engineered water droplets into protocells. Protocell networks can mimic real biophysical events within living cells.  |
Chemistry World September 1, 2006 Simon Hadlington |
System for Generating Smallest Ever Biopolymer Microcapsules Researchers have developed a technique for making microscopic capsules out of biopolymers. The method, based on a microfluidic approach, can create capsules smaller than previously possible, with unprecedented control over size.  |
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 November 3, 2004 |
Lasers Move Droplets Labs-on-a-chip promise inexpensive and portable biological and chemical analysis. The key to making the tiny labs work is finding ways to move and mix minuscule amounts of substances.  |
Chemistry World October 7, 2015 Christopher Barnard |
Microfluidic device lets the drop beat Scientists in Switzerland have incorporated pulsing human heart tissue into a microfluidic device to make a model of a living system that could be used to test new drugs.  |
Technology Research News October 22, 2003 |
Chip mixes droplets faster A team of researchers from Duke University has improved a method to mix droplets smaller than a nanoliter, or millionth of a liter. The method makes it possible to mix a pair of merged nanoscale-size droplets in less than two seconds rather than the 90 seconds ordinarily needed.  |
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.  |