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Optical image sensors are 2D arrays of pixels that integrate semiconductor photodiodes and field effect transistors for efficient photon conversion and processing of generated electrons. With technological advancements a...

Microfluidics is a very useful and promising technology that allowed engineering a huge variety of developments in several fields, such as biology, biomedical engineering, biotechnology, biochemistry, medicine and tissue...

A multiphysic model that simultaneously describe different transport phenomena in porous media is presented. The porous matrix is regarded as a bundle of periodically constricted tubes, whose pore radius distribution is ...

In this work, multiscale techniques to model the pressure driven and electroosmotic flows in porous materials with paper-like microstructures are studied and applied. The multiscale technique is based on the definition o...

Plasmonic sensing has a great potential in the portable detection of human tumor markers, among which the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) is one of the most widely used in clinical medicine. Traditional plasmonic and non-...

Background/Aim: Human saliva offers many advantages over blood-based biochemical assays, therefore, becomes the biological fluid of interest. Once antiseptic solutions react with saliva, both fluids undergo significant c...

Abstract Since their discovery, bacteriophages—viruses that infect bacteria—have been invaluable to molecular biology and biotechnology. Renewed interest in phage-based antimicrobials, driven by the global antibiotic...

Abstract Periodontitis and dental caries are the most widespread non-communicable oral disorders worldwide, affecting approximately 3.5 billion people worldwide. Nevertheless, existing in vitro models do not accurately ...

Simultaneous observation of 3D chromatin organization and transcription at the single cell level and with high spatial resolution may hold the key to unveil the mechanisms regulating embryonic development, cell different...

High optical absorptivity or a large absorption cross-section is necessary to fully utilize the irradiation of light for photothermal heating. Recently, titanium nitride (TiN) nanostructures have been demonstrated to be ...

The capacity to produce nanostructured materials with well-defined, specific properties in relatively large quantities is crucial for the viability of emerging nanotechnologies. Core@shell plasmonic structures, such as S...

Opto-thermoelectric tweezers present a new paradigm for optical trapping and manipulation of particles using low-power and simple optics. New real-life applications of opto-thermoelectric tweezers in areas such as biophy...

Optofluidics is a rising technology that combines microfluidics and optics. Its goal is to manipulate light and flowing liquids on the micro/nanoscale and exploiting their interaction in optofluidic chips. The fluid flow...

Abstract Microfluidic platforms have emerged as powerful tools for efficient intracellular delivery of exogenous cargo. While droplet microfluidics coupled with cell mechanoporation shows significant potential, its broad...

Several fundamental research and applications in biomedicine and microfluidics often require controlled manipulation of suspended micro- and nanoscale particles. Speckle tweezers (ST) by incorporating randomly distribute...

Point-of-care (POC) device development is a growing field that aims to develop low-cost, rapid, sensitive in-vitro diagnostic testing platforms that are portable, self-contained, and can be used anywhere – from modern ...

The past decade has seen significant progresses in the ability to fabricate new mesoporous thin films with highly controlled pore systems and emerging applications in sensing, electrical and thermal isolation, microfluid...

The extremely high peak intensity associated with ultrashort pulse width of femtosecond laser allows us to induce nonlinear interaction such as multiphoton absorption and tunneling ionization with materials that are tran...

In the last decades, research and development of microfluidics have made extraordinary progress, since they have revolutionized the biological and chemical fields as a backbone of lab-on-a-chip systems. Further advancem...

The Stacks platform is a reconfigurable open microfluidic cell culture device that enables integrated analysis of multi-culture systems. Effective utilization of this platform requires repeated fluid exchanges for cultur...

Equivalent circuit modeling of microfluidic chips accounts for the transport of fluid and electricity in the entire network of microchannels as a function of the applied pressure and electric potentials. For these calcul...

The development of a novel microfluidic device that includes a circular microchannel and integrated electrodes for DNA electrophoresis is reported. The geometry of the separation channel and the arrangement of the embedd...

ABSTRACT Neuroinflammation is a core pathological mechanism in neurodegenerative diseases. Although natural many compounds, derived from traditional Chinese medicine have shown promise in modulating neuroinflammation, co...

The Microchip Imaging Cytometer (MIC) is a class of integrated point-of-care detection systems based on the combination of optical microscopy and flow cytometry. MIC devices have the attributes of portability, cost-effec...