Chemical Engineering Researchers at Pitt Develop Self-Powered Microfluidic Sheet that Wraps, Flaps and Creeps The “magic carpet” featured in tales from “One Thousand and One Nights” to... Read more
The temporary structures, which can be degraded away with a biocompatible chemical trigger, could be useful in fabricating microfluidic devices, creating biomaterials that respond dynamicall... Read more
Improvements to tiny body-on-a-chip devices could lead to next-generation pre-clinical testing of drug toxicity Researchers at Kyoto University’s Institute for Integrated Cell-Material... Read more
Mass-produced microvalves are the key to scalable production of disposable, plug-and-play microfluidic devices The elusive ‘lab on a chip’ capable of shrinking and integrating operations nor... Read more
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a way to use a microscopic swirling flow to rapidly clear a circle of tiny bacteria or swimmin... Read more