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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.  |
Chemistry World March 30, 2009 Ned Stafford |
Moving forward: self-propelling oil droplets In the latest step toward creation of artificial living cells in a laboratory, a team of Japanese researchers has developed a new variety of oil droplets that propel themselves through an aqueous solution.  |
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 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.  |
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 January 17, 2014 Katia Moskvitch |
Life may have begun in a tiny water droplet Chemical reactions run much faster and more efficiently when they take place in tiny droplets rather than in freestanding water -- such as a puddle or a lake, say researchers.  |
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.  |
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 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 March 19, 2015 James Urquhart |
Mystery of colored water droplets that chase and repel each other solved Researchers have solved the puzzle of a remarkable phenomenon that allows droplets of water mixed with a food coloring to move spontaneously and freely in intricate patterns when placed on a clean glass slide.  |
Wired Thomas Hayden |
Just Dew It: What Scientists Can Learn From Flower Petals Researchers in China have discovered why water droplets roll off a lotus leaf like mercury yet stick to rose petals like peanut butter.  |
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 September 26, 2013 Angharad Rosser-James |
Kelvin's water dropper miniaturized on a chip European scientists have modified an old experiment and converted pneumatic pressure into electrical power, which could one day help power microfluidic devices.  |
Chemistry World April 4, 2013 Laura Howes |
Droplet printing assembles soft networks Producing soft networks of droplets is now much less laborious and time consuming.  |
Chemistry World July 18, 2013 Emma Stoye |
Hovering reaction driven by sound Colleagues at ETH Zurich in Switzerland used their acoustic levitator to create an explosive mid-air reaction between a tiny water droplet and a grain of sodium.  |
Chemistry World March 28, 2013 Tamsin Cowley |
Surface freezing in nanodroplets Experiments carried out by scientists in the US have provided new evidence in the controversial issue of surface freezing in alkane nanodroplets.  |
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.  |
Technology Research News December 17, 2003 |
Chip uses oil to move droplets Researchers from North Carolina State University have devised a way to manipulate tiny droplets and particles on a chip. Key to the system is suspending what needs to be moved in a heavier liquid.  |
Technology Research News April 9, 2003 |
Biochip moves liquids with heat Researchers from Princeton University have made a microscopic device that uses heat to move, mix and split droplets of liquid. The device could be used in small, battery-operated chemical sensors and hand-held medical testers.  |
Technology Research News October 20, 2004 |
Biochip levitates droplets Researchers have devised a way to magnetically levitate particles and droplets that have volumes smaller than one billionth of a milliliter. Labs-on-a-chip is one of many potential uses.  |
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.  |
Technology Research News March 10, 2004 |
Channel shapes split microdrops One important component of labs-on-a-chip is the capability of handling tiny volumes of liquid precisely. Researchers from Harvard University have come up with a method for breaking larger drops into daughter drops of specific volumes.  |
Chemistry World May 9, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
All-in-one gene detection on a chip Scientists in Singapore have invented a tiny machine that can rapidly prepare, purify and genetically analyse blood or other biological samples in less than 20 minutes.  |
Chemistry World September 28, 2012 Laura Howes |
Superhydrophobic knife slices up water Antonio Garcia's team at Arizona State University showed that a water drop pinned by wire loops can be reproducibly cut without the formation of satellite droplets.  |
Industrial Physicist Aug/Sep 2003 Jennifer Ouellette |
A new wave of microfluidic devices Flexibility and a variety of uses are the key  |
Chemistry World November 4, 2015 Andy Extance |
Trampolining droplets raise hopes for ice-shedding surfaces With fellow team members at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Tom Schutzius has worked out what was causing this previously-unknown 'trampolining'.  |
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.  |
Chemistry World February 5, 2013 Cara E Sutton |
'Invisible gates' trap water droplets Researchers in Japan have created a novel superhydrophobic hybrid surface that can separate water droplets sliding down it based on nothing more than their size.  |
Technology Research News May 4, 2005 |
Surface Tension Drives Nanomotor Researchers have found a way to harness surface tension to drive nanomachines.  |
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.  |
Bio-IT World May 19, 2004 Julia Boguslavsky |
Is Microfluidics Equipped for HTS? As microfluidics technologies mature and increase in throughput, they are starting to offer a highly accurate, flexible, and economical alternative to conventional high-throughput screening (HTS) platforms.  |
Technology Research News July 30, 2003 |
Laser bursts pierce fog Researchers in France have shown that it is possible to fire laser beams through otherwise impenetrable clouds, haze and fog. This means it could be possible to transmit data through these opaque media and remotely sense objects or chemicals within clouds, haze or fog.  |