Microfluidics for Biodetection and Sensing
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "E：Engineering and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2021) | Viewed by 5687
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microfluidics; biosensors; optical sensors; chemical sensors
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Dear Colleagues,
Biodetection and sensing are increasingly pertinent subjects in today’s climate—both for public health as well as the health of our environment—and the widely known benefits of using microfluidics could facilitate better, faster, and safer detection and monitoring of potential biothreats and chemicals around us.
Microfluidics is a multidisciplinary technology that interconnects several different areas of science, including chemistry, engineering, physics, and biology, and enables an increasing number of applications. Advances in liquid handling using micro- and nano-sized volumes allow for the automation of cumbersome and time-consuming laboratory unit operations (LUOs) such as purification, extraction, washing and separation, aliquoting, and incubation of samples prior to detection. Key advantages associated with microfluidics-based platforms with integrated detection and sensing include (i) the reduced consumption of reagents, (ii) the ability for rapid biodetection/sensing because of tiny volumes, (iii) the process intensification due to large surface-to-volume ratio, (iv) the high level of integration enabling portability and multi-functionality for point-of-need testing and monitoring.
There have been significant advances in both biosensor technology and in microfluidics, but a successful integration between these two somewhat disparate fields is key. Therefore, this Special Issue seeks to showcase research papers, and review articles that focus on the intersection of microfluidics and biodetection/sensing technologies, with particular interest being paid to detection and sensing technologies that are favorable for integration into microfluidics devices. Novel contributions that demonstrate clever approaches in any of the above listed research areas with integration in sight are also welcome.
Dr. Christabel Tan
Dr. Nikolay Dimov
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Biodetection
- Sensors
- Electronics
- Point-of-Care
- Environmental monitoring
- Microfluidics
- MEMS
- Miniaturisation
- Automated detection systems
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