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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.   |
Chemistry World
August 9, 2012
Emma Shiells |
3D-printed miniaturised fluidic devices UK scientists have developed 3D printing technology for making miniaturised fluidic reactionware devices that can be used for chemical syntheses, in just a few hours. |
Technology Research News
March 24, 2004 |
Triangles form one-way channels The microfluidic rectifier could be used in integrated microfluidic circuits, which use control fluids to operate pumps and valves that move samples and reagents in biochips. |
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. |
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. |
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
May 19, 2004 |
Microchannel Folds Fluids Researchers from the University of Michigan have devised a passive mixing scheme that causes the flow of liquids on a microfluidic chip to split, rotate and recombine so that the fluid repeatedly folds in on itself and so mixes relatively quickly despite the lack of turbulence. |
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. |
Technology Research News
May 7, 2003
Eric Smalley |
Sound forms virtual test tubes Microfluidics devices usually consist of microscopic chambers and tunnels made from silicon, glass or plastic. Researchers from the University of Washington have taken a different tack. Their microscale device uses sound waves to trap and mix tiny amounts of substances. |
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
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 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. |
Chemistry World
June 27, 2013
Rachel Cooper |
Self-contained chemical synthesis Scientists in the UK have used reactors made on a 3D printer to complete a three stage organic synthesis. |
Job Journal
June 12, 2005
Marty Nemko |
Quick Fix: The Two-Minute Struggle Don't let stumbling blocks turn into roadblocks. |
Chemistry World
April 14, 2011
Sarah Farley |
Fish in chips: growing embryos in microfluidic systems Scientists in the Netherlands and the UK have shown for the first time that an animal embryo can develop in a microfluidic environment. |
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. |
Chemistry World
December 16, 2013
Michael Parkin |
1024 samples analysed on a single chip Researchers in Switzerland have developed a microfluidic platform able to measure four protein biomarkers in over 1000 blood samples on a single microfluidic chip. |
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
March 22, 2011
Amaya Camara-Campos |
Microfluidics to diagnose sleeping sickness Jonas Tegenfeldt from the University of Lund developed a microfluidic device that separates the parasites in this disease from the blood cells using their shape, because parasites and red blood cells are very difficult to separate by size. |
Bio-IT World
February 10, 2003
Robert M. Frederickson |
Bringing Integrated Circuits to Life Cell-sized biochips mean that channels, pumps, and valves must become minuscule, too. |
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. |
Chemistry World
March 4, 2013
Harriet Brewerton |
Co-factoring on a chip makes biocatalysis easy Stephan Mohr and colleagues have designed an efficient microfluidic biocatalysis device that uses and regenerates an artificial mediator, dimethyl viologen, which is cheaper than co-factors used currently. |
Industrial Physicist
Aug/Sep 2003
Jennifer Ouellette |
A new wave of microfluidic devices Flexibility and a variety of uses are the key |
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
September 1, 2008
James Mitchell Crow |
Drug discovery on a chip Scientists in the US have, for the first time, used microfluidics to discover drug leads. The team's lab-on-a-chip device revealed inhibitors of a key membrane-bound protein in hepatitis C virus |
