The rapid growth in the use of Micro/Nano products in variety of industries such as Micro electromechanical systems (MEMS), microelectronics, Biomedical/Bio-MEMS, automotive (motion sensors), telecommunications etc, has demanded new micro manufacturing methods. The challenge with the manufacturing of Microfluidic devices/biochips is that they often make use of broad range of materials within a ...

We report an array of polymeric nanowires for effectively immobilizing biomolecules on biochips owing to the large surface area. The nanowires were fabricated in predesigned patterns using an inductively coupled plasma (ICP) etching process. Microfluidic biochips integrated using the substrates with arrays of nanowires and polydimethylsiloxane channels have been demonstrated to be effective for...

As Digital Microfluidic Biochips (DMFBs) become more and more popular, largescale integration of DMFB microarrays is desirable. Multiple DMFBs with different electrode size from various manufacturers may need to be integrated into a single chip. However, the incompatibility of electrode size poses a problem for the integration of multiple DMFBs. In this paper, a droplet size adapter to convert ...

Digital microfluidic (DMF) biochips are now being extensively used to automate several biochemical laboratory protocols such as clinical analysis, point-of-care diagnostics, and polymerase chain reaction (PCR). In many biological assays, e.g., in bacterial susceptibility tests, samples and reagents are required in multiple concentration (or dilution) factors, satisfying certain “gradient” patte...

It gives us great pleasure to present two papers selected from the CASES 2009 program. These two papers were selected from around seventy submissions received after a rigorous process of reviewing. The first paper titled “Tabu Search-Based Synthesis of Digital Microfluidic Biochips with Dynamically Reconfigurable Non-Rectangular Devices” by Elena Maftei, Paul Pop and Jan Madsen, is in the relat...