Keep them separated: Liquid operations based on the sound-controlled fluidic processor. These chematics and sequential images show the controlled separation of a 10-μl droplet, where the separation ...

Once seen as a cop-out or a party trick, the drop shot has become a vital tactic in the men's and women's game. Tennis. Drop shots in tennis go from eccentric to essential, ...

In this work, we present two types of microfluidic chips involving magnetic nanoparticles dispersed in cyclohexane with oleic acid. In the first case, the hydrophobically coated nanoparticles are self ...

Microfluidics, particularly droplet-based systems, has become a promising technology for diverse fields, including protein engineering, single-cell sequencing, and nanoparticle synthesis.

Microfluidic technologies have opened up new possibilities for ultra-low volume, and ultrafast assays, compared to bulk-scale counterparts. We have been focused on developing new tools for droplet ...

Digital Droplet PCR (ddPCR) is a method for performing digital PCR use microfluidic water-oil emulsion technology. By utilizing microfluidics and fractionating DNA samples into nanoliter droplets , ...

Furthermore, droplet microfluidics has enabled new applications that were not possible with traditional methods. It can shape the size of the particles and influence their morphology and anisotropy.

Droplet microfluidics is a research area rapidly evolving due to its vast range of potential applications in several fields ranging from medicine to biodefense, and drug administration. In this ...

Therefore, we decided to develop a new microfabrication technique to integrate these structures into microfluidic channels to achieve efficient droplet formation," emphasizes Dr. Yamada. In the study, ...