Advances In Mems And Microfluidic Systems

"Advances in MEMS and Microfluidic Systems explores the emerging research and advances in MEMS device and microfluidic systems applications. It features in-depth chapters on microfluidic device design and fabrication as well as on the aspects of devices/systems, characterization, and comparative research findings. Covering topics such as biosensors, lab-on-a-chip, and microfluidic technology, this premier reference source is an indispensable resource for engineers, health professionals, students and educators of higher education, librarians, researchers, and academicians"--

Microfluidics and nanofluids are rapidly growing technologies of tremendous potential and benefits. This book features a spectrum of topics on these emerging technologies that include microfluidic applications, mass production of chips, flow sensing approaches, fabrication of microfluidic channels using the micromilling process, application of micromixers for wastewater treatment and life cycle assessment, solar thermal conversion of plasmonic nanofluids, and liquid cooling, as well as carbon capture utilization and storage using nanocomposite and nanofluids. The book is intended to provide useful information and guidance to a wide variety of people including students, researchers, engineers, and manufacturers who are involved or interested in these technologies.

The outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has made the general public aware of the breakthrough technologies which were developed in recent years for state-of-the-art biosensing, and terms such as clinical specificity and sensitivity are now widely understood. The need for reliable point-of-care diagnostic systems during the last few years has been crucial. Continuous developments in MEMS technology and microfluidics are key drivers for the miniaturization of lab-grade sensing systems. Micro-technologies and miniaturization allow for designing lightweight and small devices, other advantages include reduced consumption of power and reagents, faster response times, increased sensitivity, reduced environmental footprint, availability of batch production processes for low-cost and disposable devices. This Special Issue published seven novel contributions in the fields of biosensing, lab-on-chip, organ-on-chip and related technologies such as numerical microfluidics studies, digital micro-fluidics and micromixers.

Microfluidics and BioMEMS Applications central idea is on microfluidics, a relatively new research field which finds its niche in biomedical devices, especially on lab-on-a-chip and related products. Being the essential component in providing driving fluidic flows, an example of micropump is chosen to illustrate a complete cycle in development of microfluidic devices which include literature review, designing and modelling, fabrication and testing. A few articles are included to demonstrate the idea of tackling this research problem, and they cover the main development scope discussed earlier as well as other advanced modelling schemes for microfluidics and beyond. Scientists and students working in the areas of MEMS and microfluidics will benefit from this book, which may serve both communities as both a reference monograph and a textbook for courses in numerical simulation, and design and development of microfluidic devices.

Advances in Microfluidics provides a current snapshot of the field of microfluidics as it relates to a variety of sub-disciplines. The chapters have been divided into three sections: Fluid Dynamics, Technology, and Applications, although a number of the chapters contain aspects that make them applicable to more than one section. It is hoped that this book will serve as a useful resource for recent entrants to the field as well as for established practitioners.

This is an all-inclusive book on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). The developments of MEMS and devices have been influential in the demonstration of new devices and techniques, and even in the influx of new fields of research and developments such as BioMEMS, actuators, microfluidic devices, RF and optical MEMS. Therefore, the need is for MEMS book which incorporates the recent advances in the field. This book is prepared by the specialists in the field of MEMS. It consists of two major sections dedicated to RF and Optical MEMS, and MEMS based Actuators.

This book addresses Lab-on-a-Chip devices. It focuses on microfluidic technologies that have emerged in the past decade. Coverage presents a comprehensive listing of the most promising microfluidic technologies in the Lab-on-a-Chip field. It also details technologies that can be viewed as toolboxes needed to set up complex Lab-on-a-Chip systems.

The field of microfluidics has in the last decade permeated many disciplines, from physics to biology and chemistry, and from bioengineering to medical research. One of the most important applications of lab-on-a-chip devices in medicine and related disciplines is disease diagnostics, which involves steps from biological sample/analyte loading to storage, detection, and analysis. The chapters collected in this book detail recent advances in these processes using microfluidic devices and systems. The reviews of portable devices for diagnostic purposes are likely to evoke interest and raise new research questions in interdisciplinary fields (e.g., efficient MEMS/microfluidic engineering driven by biological and medical applications). The variety of the selected topics (general relevance of microfluidics in medical and bioengineering research, fabrication, advances in on-chip sample detection and analysis, and specific disease models) ensures that each of them can be viewed in the larger context of microfluidic-mediated diagnostics. Contents:A Microscale Bioinspired Cochlear-like Sensor (Robert D White, Robert Littrell, and Karl Grosh)Systematic Evaluation of the Efficiencies of Proteins and Chemicals in Pharmaceutical Applications (Morgan Hamon and Jong Wook Hong)Microfluidic Glucose Sensors (Jithesh V Veetil, Sruthi Ravindranathan, Sha Jin, and Kaiming Ye)Applications of Microfabrication and Microfluidic Techniques in Mesenchymal Stem Cell Research (Abhijit Majumder, Jyotsna Dhawan, Oren Levy, and Jeffrey M Karp)Patient-Specific Modeling of Low-Density Lipoprotein Transport in Coronary Arteries (Ufuk Olgac)Point-of-Care Microdevices for Global Health Diagnostics of Infectious Diseases (Sau Yin Chin, Tassaneewan Laksanasopin, Curtis D Chin, and Samuel K Sia)Integrated Microfluidic Sample Preparation for Chip-based Molecular Diagnostics (Jane Y Zhang, Qingqing Cao, Madhumita Mahalanabis, and Catherine Klapperich)Microfluidic Devices for Cellular Proteomic Studies (Yihong Zhan and Chang Lu)Microfluidics for Neuroscience: Novel Tools and Future Implications (Vivian M Hernandez and P Hande Özdinler)Microfluidics: On-Chip Platforms as In Vitro Disease Models (Shan Gao, Erkin Şeker, and Martin L Yarmush)Application of Microfluidics in Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering (Sasha H Bakhru, Christopher Highley, and Stefan Zappe)Microfluidic “On-the-Fly” Fabrication of Microstructures for Biomedical Applications (Edward Kang, Sau Fung Wong, and Sang-Hoon Lee)Microfluidics as a Promising Tool Toward Distributed Viral Detection (Elodie Sollier and Dino Di Carlo)Electrophoresis and Dielectrophoresis for Lab-on-a-Chip (LOC) Analyses (Yağmur Demircan, Gürkan Yilmaz, and Haluk Külah)Ultrasonic Embossing of Carbon Nanotubes for the Fabrication of Polymer Microfluidic Chips for DNA Sample Purification (Puttachat Khuntontong, Min Gong, and Zhiping Wang)Ferrofluidics (A Rezzan Kose and Hur Koser)Antibody-based Blood Bioparticle Capture and Separation Using Microfluidics for Global Health (ZhengYuan Luo, ShuQi Wang, Utkan Demirci, TianJian Lu, Feng Xu, and BoFeng Bai)Applications of Quantum Dots for Fluorescence Imaging in Biomedical Research (ShuQi Wang, Matin Esfahani, Dusan Sarenac, Bettina Cheung, Aishwarya Vasudevan, Fatih Inci, and Utkan Demirci) Readership: Engineers, academic researchers and instructors, and industry researchers involved in microfluidic technologies. Keywords:Point-of-Care;Rapid Detection and Monitoring;Infectious Diseases;Biomedical Engineering / Bioengineering;Stem Cells Research;Biotechnology;Tissue Engineering