Book Description

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Authors: Xiao-ying Yu

Nov 23rd 2016

Increasing innovations and applications make microfluidics a versatile choice for researchers in many disciplines. This book consists of multiple review chapters that aim to cover recent advances and new applications of microfluidics in biology, electronics, energy, and materials sciences. It provides comprehensive views of various aspects of microfluidics ranging from fundamentals of fabrication, flow control, and droplet manipulation to the most recent exploration in emerging areas such as material synthesis, imaging and novel spectroscopy, and marriage with electronics. The chapters have many illustrations showcasing exciting results. This book should be useful for those who are eager to learn more about microfluidics as well as researchers who want to pick up new concepts and developments in this fast-growing field.

• Chapter 1 Advances in Low Volume Sample Analysis Using Microfluidic Separation Techniques  by Virginie Houbart and Marianne Fillet
• Chapter 2 Molecular Microfluidic Bioanalysis: Recent Progress in Preconcentration, Separation, and Detection by Emmanuel Roy, Antoine Pallandre etc 
• Chapter 3 Application of Microfluidics in Stem Cell Culture by Shinji Sugiura, Kohji Nakazawa etc
• Chapter 4 Advanced Microfluidic Assays for Caenorhabditis elegans by Natalia A. Bakhtina, Neil MacKinnon etc.
• Chapter 5 Microfluidics for Ultrafast Spectroscopy by Adrien A. P. Chauvet
• Chapter 6  Flow-Scanning Microfluidic Imaging by Nicolas Pégard, Chien-Hung Lu and Marton Toth etc.
• Chapter 7  Integrated Control of Microfluidics – Application in Fluid Routing, Sensor Synchronization, and Real-Time Feedback Controlby Elishai Ezra, Danny Bavli and Yaakov Nahmias
• Chapter 8  Microfluidics for Soft Electronicsby Babak Taghavi, Jiantong Li, Mikael Östling and Shi Cheng
• Chapter 9 Microfluidic Sensors and Circuits for Internet of Things Applications by John Yan
• Chapter 10  Electroosmotic Flow Pump by Meng Gao and Lin Gui etc. 
• Chapter 11  Laser-Based Fabrication for Microfluidics Devices on Glass for Medical Applicationsby Daniel Nieto García and Gerard O’Connor
• Chapter 12 Microfluidics in Membraneless Fuel Cells by Jesus A. Diaz-Real, Minerva Guerra-Balcázar, Noe Arjona, Francisco Cuevas-Muñiz, Luis Gerardo Arriaga and Janet Ledesma-García
• Chapter 13 Microfluidics in CO2 Capture, Sequestration, and Applications by Taotao Fu
• Chapter 14 Generation and Evaporation of Microsprays by Chin-Tai Chen
• Chapter 15  Overview of Materials for Microfluidic Applications by Emmanuel Roy, Antoine Pallandre etc. 
• Chapter 16 Synthesis of Functional Materials by Non-Newtonian Microfluidic Multiphase System by Yong Ren, Kai Seng Koh and Yaping Zhang
• Chapter 17  High and Efficient Production of Nanomaterials by Microfluidic Reactor Approaches by Victor Sebastian Cabeza

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