The microfluidics market presents significant opportunities in laboratory-on-a-chip research, miniaturized diagnostics, pharmaceutical R&D, and personalized medicine. Growth drivers include ...

Researchers have developed a groundbreaking, freely available droplet microfluidic component library, which promises to transform the way microfluidic devices are created. This innovation, based on ...

A cheap one-step process produces miniature chemical reactors that could be used to detect diseases or analyze substances. MIT researchers have used 3D printing to produce self-heating microfluidic ...

The beverage industry continually seeks innovative methods to ensure product quality, safety, and compliance with global health standards. Microfluidic devices have emerged as a pivotal technology in ...

Old-school electrical engineers—and plenty of older research scientists, even biologists like me—remember the days of building circuits from parts: capacitors, resistors, and transistors. The creation ...

A fabrication process can produce self-heating microfluidic devices in one step using a multimaterial 3D printer. These devices, which can be made rapidly and cheaply in large numbers, could help ...

Microfluidics involves fluid manipulation and control at a submillimeter scale within microfabricated channels etched on a chip, forming a miniature laboratory capable of performing complex analytical ...

Environmental pollutant analysis typically requires complex sample pretreatment steps such as filtration, separation, and ...

Microplastics (MPs), plastic debris smaller than 5 mm, indirectly harm the environment. They are traditionally collected and removed from water by filtering through meshes, which is inefficient.

In a recent breakthrough, researchers from MIT have introduced an innovative technique involving multi-material 3D printing to create self-heating microfluidic devices. MIT researchers developed a ...