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State-of-the-Art Microfluidic Technology in Europe

A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2021) | Viewed by 8370

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Dr. Ville Jokinen

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Department of Chemistry and Materials Science, School of Chemical Engineering, Aalto University, Micronova, Tietotie 3, 02150 Espoo, Finland
Interests: micro and nanofabrication; polymer materials; microfluidics for cell biology and analytical chemistry; wetting; superhydrophobicity
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Microfluidics has made significant progress in its several-decades-long existence as a scientific field. The need for the field has never been more clear than it is today. Microfluidics has the potential to offer solutions in, e.g., medical diagnostics, drug development, and environmental analysis.

This Special Issue invites contributions from the European microfluidics community on their latest advances in the field of microfluidics. For the purposes of this Special Issue, microfluidics is defined broadly to encompass not only traditional fluidic channels but also, e.g., droplet manipulation on surfaces or the use of paper or other porous matrices. The focus of the submissions should be on application of microfluidics or new microfluidic components/principles. Submissions based on new materials and fabrication methods are also invited, but they need to have a clear link to microfluidics as otherwise, they might fall outside the scope of this Special Issue. This Special Issue seeks to showcase research papers, communications, and review articles that focus on microfluidic technology in Europe.

Dr. Ville Jokinen
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Keywords

  • lab-on-chip
  • µTAS
  • droplet microfluidics
  • digital microfluidics
  • paper microfluidics
  • capillary filling
  • organ-on-chip

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Acoustic Cell Patterning in Hydrogel for Three-Dimensional Cell Network Formation
by Kyo-in Koo, Andreas Lenshof, Le Thi Huong and Thomas Laurell
Micromachines 2021, 12(1), 3; https://doi.org/10.3390/mi12010003 - 22 Dec 2020
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In the field of engineered organ and drug development, three-dimensional network-structured tissue has been a long-sought goal. This paper presents a direct hydrogel extrusion process exposed to an ultrasound standing wave that aligns fibroblast cells to form a network structure. The frequency-shifted (2 [...] Read more.
In the field of engineered organ and drug development, three-dimensional network-structured tissue has been a long-sought goal. This paper presents a direct hydrogel extrusion process exposed to an ultrasound standing wave that aligns fibroblast cells to form a network structure. The frequency-shifted (2 MHz to 4 MHz) ultrasound actuation of a 400-micrometer square-shaped glass capillary that was continuously perfused by fibroblast cells suspended in sodium alginate generated a hydrogel string, with the fibroblasts aligned in single or quadruple streams. In the transition from the one-cell stream to the four-cell streams, the aligned fibroblast cells were continuously interconnected in the form of a branch and a junction. The ultrasound-exposed fibroblast cells displayed over 95% viability up to day 10 in culture medium without any significant difference from the unexposed fibroblast cells. This acoustofluidic method will be further applied to create a vascularized network by replacing fibroblast cells with human umbilical vein endothelial cells. Full article
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A Microfluidic Chip Architecture Enabling a Hypoxic Microenvironment and Nitric Oxide Delivery in Cell Culture
by Samineh Barmaki, Daniela Obermaier, Esko Kankuri, Jyrki Vuola, Sami Franssila and Ville Jokinen
Micromachines 2020, 11(11), 979; https://doi.org/10.3390/mi11110979 - 30 Oct 2020
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A hypoxic (low oxygen level) microenvironment and nitric oxide paracrine signaling play important roles in the control of both biological and pathological cell responses. In this study, we present a microfluidic chip architecture for nitric oxide delivery under a hypoxic microenvironment in human [...] Read more.
A hypoxic (low oxygen level) microenvironment and nitric oxide paracrine signaling play important roles in the control of both biological and pathological cell responses. In this study, we present a microfluidic chip architecture for nitric oxide delivery under a hypoxic microenvironment in human embryonic kidney cells (HEK-293). The chip utilizes two separate, but interdigitated microfluidic channels. The hypoxic microenvironment was created by sodium sulfite as the oxygen scavenger in one of the channels. The nitric oxide microenvironment was created by sodium nitroprusside as the light-activated nitric oxide donor in the other channel. The solutions are separated from the cell culture by a 30 µm thick gas-permeable, but liquid-impermeable polydimethylsiloxane membrane. We show that the architecture is preliminarily feasible to define the gaseous microenvironment of a cell culture in the 100 µm and 1 mm length scales. Full article
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