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Pore Power: High-Speed Droplet Production in Microfluidic Devices

Over the last two decades, ongoing research in microfluidics has faced challenges in applications due to the restricted productivity of microdroplets.

7 Feb 2024

Photonic Chip That ‘Fits Together Like Lego’ Opens Door to Local Industry

Researchers at the University of Sydney Nano Institute have invented a compact silicon semiconductor chip that integrates electronics with photonic, or light, components.

2 Dec 2023

Swedish Company Delivers First Quantum Chips to Clients

The Gothenburg based company ConScience AB has delivered its first quantum technology components to a US based quantum computing company. Quantum computers are a type of computing technology that leverage the principles...

From ConScience AB 11 Sep 2023

Novel On-Chip Magnetic Extraction System for Effective Extraction of Exosomes

Exosomes are lipid-bilayer nanoscale membrane particles with an average size of around 200 nm, which are secreted by many cell types.

4 Jul 2022

Researchers Develop Microfluidic System for Potential Lab-on-a-Chip Devices

A terahertz optical spectroscopy system prototype with a sensing area comparable to the cross-sectional area of only five human hairs was developed by researchers from Osaka University’s Institute of Laser Engineering.

27 Jun 2022

Plasmonic Optical Tweezers with a Multitude of Applications

In a recent article, the authors presented an integrated multifunctional two-dimensional (2D) plasmonic optical tweezer with an array of graphene disks and a substrate circuit.

26 May 2022

Promising New Carbon Nanotube Chip for Cancer Cell Capture and Release

A new two component-based glass/polydimethylsiloxane microfluidic pH-responsive carbon nanotube chip can efficiently capture or release cancer cells from blood samples.

10 May 2022

Researchers Design Silicon Nanochips as Intracellular Mechanical Drugs

A multidisciplinary team at CSIC has introduced silicon chips 50 nanometres thick, as thin as a thousandth part of a hair, into living cells. These devices allow the study of cell division processes and can even be designed to interfere with the cell cycle, preventing division and causing cell death.

28 Apr 2022

Scientists Point to Nanotechnology to Improve Microfluidic Systems

Researchers review different nanotechnology-assisted microfluidic systems, specifically nanoparticles (NPs)-integrated microfluidic biosensors, for chemical and bioanalysis.

14 Apr 2022