Droplet and Digital Microfluidics
Ideation to Implementation
- 1st Edition - March 11, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Sanket Goel, Sohan Dudala
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 4 1 6 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 4 1 7 - 1
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Request a sales quoteDroplet and Digital Microfluidics: Ideation to Implementation is a detailed introduction to the dynamics of droplet and digital microfluidics, also featuring coverage of new methods and applications. The explosion of applications of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) in recent years has driven demand for expertise and innovation in fluid flow in the microchannels they contain. In this book, detailed descriptions of methods for biological and chemical applications of microfluidics are provided, along with supporting foundational knowledge. In addition, the principles of droplet and digital microfluidics are explained, along with their different applications and governing physics.
New additions to the technological knowledgebase that enable advances in droplet and digital microfluidics include machine learning and exciting future avenues for research.
- Provides step-by-step fabrication, testing, and characterization instructions in each chapter to support implementation
- Includes explanations of applications and methods in biological and chemical settings
- Describes the path to automation of digital and droplet microfluidic platforms
Graduate students and researchers interested in microfluidics and MEMS
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Droplet microfluidics
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Principles
- 3. Methods
- 4. Applications
- Chapter 3. Digital microfluidics
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Theory and principles
- 3. Methods and materials
- 4. Applications
- 5. Conclusion
- Chapter 4. Droplet-based microfluidics in chemical applications
- 1. Introduction to microfluidics
- 2. Droplet-based microfluidics
- 3. Chemical applications in droplet-based microfluidics
- 4. Chemical applications in channel-based microfluidics
- 5. Chemical applications in digital microfluidics (DMF)
- 6. Summary and conclusion
- Chapter 5. Droplet-based microfluidics for biological applications
- 1. Fundamentals of droplet-based single-particle analysis
- 2. Single-molecule and single-cell polymerase chain reaction
- 3. Droplet-based directed enzyme evolution system
- 4. Single cell analysis
- 5. Conclusion and future directions
- Chapter 6. Digital microfluidics and its application in chip cooling
- 1. Need for electronic cooling
- 2. Background
- 3. Cooling techniques
- 4. Cooling using digital microfluidics
- 5. Conclusion
- Chapter 7. Droplet and digital microfluidics–enabled analytical techniques
- 1. Droplet and digital microfluidics in mass spectrometry
- 2. Droplet and digital microfluidics in fluorescence-activated cell sorting
- 3. Droplet and digital microfluidics in noninvasive micromanipulation
- 4. Conclusion
- Chapter 8. Automation of digital/droplet microfluidic platforms
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Microfluidics platform
- 3. EWOD-based digital microfluidics platform
- 4. EWOD voltage unit and fundamental operation
- 5. EWOD advanced system—sensing of droplet parameters
- 6. EWOD system in chemical/biomedical application
- 7. Droplet-based microfluidics in biomedical application
- 8. Summary
- Chapter 9. Challenges and opportunities
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Classification of different detection techniques
- 3. Challenges in DBMF and DMF
- 4. Opportunities in digital and droplet-based microfluidics
- 5. Research gap
- 6. Conclusion
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 11, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 280
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443154164
- eBook ISBN: 9780443154171
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Sanket Goel
Sanket Goel is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering of BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad. He previously headed the same department and R&D department at UPES, Dehradun. His lab focusses on MEMS, Microfluidics and Nanoelectronics for Energy and Bio Applications. Sanket has won awards including the JSPS Fellowship (2021), BITS Best Faculty Award (2021), and Fulbright fellowship (2015). He has >250 publications and 16 patents to his credits and has delivered >85 invited talks and has guided 40 PhD students.
Affiliations and expertise
Birla Institute of Technology (BITS) BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad, IndiaSD
Sohan Dudala
Sohan completed his Doctoral Degree from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus in the field of Bio-MEMS. During his doctoral program, Sohan worked on microfluidic cardiac cell culture systems and developing cardiac biomarker assessment systems. Prior to his doctoral program, Sohan completed an extra credit program with Hiroshima University. Sohan also holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus and a Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Manipal University Jaipur. Sohan holds wide exposure to interdisciplinary technology development with his previous work in the fields of metal oxide nanostructure coatings, microfluidic water and soil assessment systems, PCR diagnostic devices and point-of-care diagnostics
Affiliations and expertise
MEMS, Microfluidics and Nanoelectronics (MMNE) Laboratory, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani - Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, Telangana, India;Read Droplet and Digital Microfluidics on ScienceDirect