Editorial for the Special Issue on Droplet-Based Microfluidics: Design, Fabrication, and Applications

Overview

Journal Micromachines (Basel)

Publisher MDPI

Date 2023 Mar 29

PMID 36985100

Authors

Pingan Zhu

Affiliations

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Abstract

Microfluidics is a rapidly growing field of research that involves the manipulation and analysis of fluids in small-scale channels, usually with dimensions ranging from sub-micrometer to sub-millimeter [...].

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