In the past two decades, the microfluidic biochip, also known as Lab-on-a-Chip (LoC), has emerged to revolutionize the traditional biological, biochemical and biomedical experimental processes. Their tremendous impact can be attributed to the noticeable merits of microfluidic devices and systems such as miniaturization, automation, sensitivity, accuracy, throughput, etc. Nowadays, a microfluidic system integrates various devices, forming a cyber-physical system based on mechanics, optics, electronics, fluidics and high-performance computing – with killer applications in the healthcare field from single-cell genomics to personalized healthcare.
Interested authors are invited to submit their works on the design of microfluidic circuits and systems for the wide range of biomedical applications. The scope of this special issue includes (but is not limited to):
- New microvalve structures and devices in microfluidics
- Single-layer and multi-layer continuous-flow microfluidic biochips
- Paper-based microfluidics
- Micro-Electrode-Dot-Array (MEDA) digital microfluidic biochips
- Two-phase microfluidics
- Cyber-physical(acousto, opto) microfluidic systems
- Microfluidic circuits
- Sensors and image/signal analysis for microfluidics
- Design automation and testing in microfluidics
- Simulation of microfluidic devices/physical implementations
- Automatic control circuits and systems in LoC
- Switching-based reliability enhancement and current/voltage optimization in LoC