
Microfluidic Devices for Biomedical Applications
Description
Key Features
- Discusses the fundamentals of microfluidics or lab-on-a-chip (LOC) and explores a wide range of medical applications
- Considers materials and methods for microfabrication, microfluidic actuation mechanisms and digital microfluidic technologies
- Details applications of microfluidic devices in cellular analysis and manipulation, tissue engineering and its role in developing tissue scaffolds, and stem cell engineering
Readership
Medical device manufacturers, scientists, and researchers concerned with microfluidics in the field of drug delivery, cell manipulation, tissue engineering and diagnostics/sensing; Industrial and academic researchers and developers in the life sciences and engineering fields who aim to use microengineering technologies to develop advanced techniques and microdevices for advancements in healthcare and medical diagnostics
Table of Contents
Part I Fundamentals of microfluidic technologies for biomedical applications
1. Materials and methods for the microfabrication of microfluidic biomedical devices
2. Surface coatings for microfluidic-based biomedical devices
3. Actuation mechanisms for microfluidic biomedical devices
4. Droplet Microfluidics for biomedical devicesPart II Applications of microfluidic devices for drug delivery and discovery
5. Controlled drug deliver using microfluidic devices
6. Microneedles for drug delivery and monitoring
7. Microfluidic devices for drug discovery and analysisPart III Applications of microfluidic devices for cellar analysis and tissue engineering
8. Microfluidic devices for cell manipulation (review type)
9. Microfluidic devices for single cell trapping and automated micro-robotic injection (specific research topic)
10. Microfluidic devices for developing tissue scaffolds
11. Microfluidic devices for stem cell analysis
12. 3D printing and applicationsPart IV Applications of microfluidic devices in diagnostic Sensing
13. Development of immunoassays for protein analysis
14. Integrated microfluidic systems for genetic analysis
15. Low-cost assays in paper-based microfluidic biomedical devices
16. Microfluidic devices for viral detection
17. Microfluidics for monitoring and imaging pancreatic islet and betal-cells for human transplant
Product details
- No. of pages: 722
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Woodhead Publishing 2021
- Published: August 5, 2021
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- eBook ISBN: 9780128227558
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128199718
About the Editors
Xiujun Li
Affiliations and Expertise
Yu Zhou
Affiliations and Expertise
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