Issue 17, 2014

Nanofluidics in point of care applications

Abstract

Nanofluidics is generally described as the study of liquid flow in or around structures of 100 nm or smaller, and its use for lab on a chip devices has now been actively studied for two decades. Here a brief review is given of the impact that this nanofluidics research has had on point of care applications. Four areas are identified where nanofluidics has brought the largest contributions: single nanopores, nanoporous membranes, nanoconfinement and the use of concentration polarization. The sometimes revolutionary developments in these areas are briefly treated and finally challenges and future perspectives are described.

Graphical abstract: Nanofluidics in point of care applications

Article information

Article type
Frontier
Submitted
10 Mar 2014
Accepted
25 Apr 2014
First published
15 May 2014
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Lab Chip, 2014,14, 3201-3205

Nanofluidics in point of care applications

L. I. Segerink and J. C. T. Eijkel, Lab Chip, 2014, 14, 3201 DOI: 10.1039/C4LC00298A

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