Microfluidic chips

With this review, we give you some advices on how to select the right microfluidic chip for your application.

We discuss the main materials used for microfluidic chips, and their related production methods. In addition, we give you advice on which material one should use depending on the application.

We discuss some applications where microfluidics achieves results that would be very challenging to obtain when using conventional methods.

After introducing the Raydrop, Adrien  Dewandre and his team from ULB  demonstrate that this new configuration offers the ability to emulsify any liquid with a wide range of droplet sizes. This universality is demonstrated with experimental results. Modeling is also performed, supporting experimental results, and allowing for the prediction of droplet size and production regime (dripping, jetting regimes).

We here define microfluidic chips and summarize microfluidic history.