Microfluidic Analysis and Separation Techniques

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, technological advances have made possible an exponential amount of development in microfluidic analysis and enabled us to tackle more complex approaches and challenging samples. The broad range of branches of microfluidics in terms of device construction (polymer chips, paper-based, etc.), forms of detection (colorimetric, electrochemical, etc.), and aim (detection, quantification, separation) makes it a very rich and highly diverse research area. In this context, microfluidic devices can be divided into two groups: separation-driven devices and chemical-analysis-driven devices. To achieve separation, namely of cells for biological applications, fluid manipulation is used in microfluidic devices based on dean flow, pinched flow fractionation (PFF), and tesla valves, among others. Microfluidic devices for chemical analysis aim to comprise chemical reactions, in an approach that minimizes sample and reagent consumption, involving polymer-based devices with imprinted channels, such as a lab-on-a-chip (LOC), or paper-based devices, such as μPAD (a microfluidic paper-based analytical device).

In summary, microfluidic analysis involves several research fields. So, dedicating a Special Issue to "Microfluidic Analysis and Separation Techniques" is an ambitious challenge to which I would like to invite you all. Hopefully, your contribution will mirror the vast number of applications of microfluidics and strengthen it as a multidisciplinary field.

Dr. Raquel Beatriz Ribeiro Mesquita
Guest Editor

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• micro flow manipulation
• imprinted chips
• cell separation
• chemical analysis
• microfluidics paper-based devices
• clinical diagnosis