Innovations in Materials, Fabrication and Functionalization of Microfluidic Devices
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 January 2022) | Viewed by 6598
Special Issue Editors
Interests: multiphase flow in porous media; simulation of flow in microfluidic devices; electrochemical energy storage; flow and transport in PEM fuel cells; additive manufacturing for improved heat transport
Interests: chemical reactioning; micro reaktors; online analytics; multi-phase reaction; mixing in mirco reactors; scale-up micro to mini reactor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, microfluidics has become an attractive field of research, since it has a wide range of applications, such as in lab-on-a-chip devices, cell analysis, cosmetics, drug delivery, microfabrication, and chemical synthesis.
Microfluidics is a subsection of fluidics usually in networks of channels with dimensions from tens to hundreds of micrometers and microliter volumes. Since the first approaches to miniaturizint the fluid flow devices in the 1990s, the discipline has grown enormously over the last three decades.
Microfluidic devices are manufactured with a large variety of methods and materials. Typical materials are polymers, including silicon-based polymers, inorganic materials such as glass or silicon, and paper. Traditional methods for microfabrication are photolithography and wet or dry etching. However, the use of additive manufacturing is getting more and more important. So-called 3D printing can also handle multicomponent materials.
The flow in microfluid devices, especially for multiphase flow, strongly depends on the surface properties. Thus, a surface treatment is very common in order to achieve properties such as hydrophobicity.
This Special Issue will focus on the innovations in materials on for microfluidic devices and their fabrication. Additionally, we are looking for contributions in the field of functionalization of microfluid devices
Prof. Dr. Volker Paul Schulz
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Röder
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Inorganic materials, such as glass, silicon or ceramics
- Rigid polymers
- Silicon-based polymers
- Additive manufacturing
- Surface treatment
- Multiple-material devices
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