Themed collection Editor’s Choice: Microfluidics

Guoping Chen introduces a Journal of Materials Chemistry B and Biomaterials Science Editor's choice web collection on recent advances in microfluidics.

Wound healing microphysiological systems have been engineered with synthetic and natural materials and techniques such as bioprinting or viscous finger patterning. Model designs focus on particular phases of wound healing or the recapitulation of micro-anatomies.

Integrating ECM materials in microfluidics for 3D cell culture.

This paper summarizes various aptamer-functionalized nanostructured interfaces for the detection and release of circulating tumor cells.

This article provides an extensive review of paper-based sensors that utilize functional nucleic acids, particularly DNA aptamers and DNAzymes, as recognition elements.

This review highlights the recent advances in nanomaterial-based immunoassays for MMP abundance measurements and nanomaterial-based biosensors for MMP activity determination.

This review provides a comprehensive summary of recent advances in microfluidics-enabled controllable synthesis and bioapplications of ZnO micro-/nanomaterials.

Here, a continuous two-step glass-capillary microfluidic technique to produce a multistage oral insulin delivery system is reported. This system represents a promising alternative for the common protein/peptide-loaded liposome formulations.

Cell-instructive biohybrid microgel-in-gel materials can guide the faithful in vitro reconstitution of tissues.

Shear stress can act either synergistically or antagonistically with topographical cues in specific cell responses such as orientation and elongation.

pH responsive core–shell nanobowl-microstructures (NB-shells) as novel and exciting platforms for stimuli activated drug delivery applications.

P/C–h composite microparticles fabricated by microfluidics enhanced the biological functions of hMSC aggregates through neutralizing PLGA′ acidic degradation products.

When evaluating the biological properties of titanium under dynamic conditions, cell proliferation was shown to be dominant over cell differentiation.

One-step synthesis of composite hydrogel capsules (CHCs) that allow engineering hiPSC-derived liver organoids in an oil-free droplet microfluidic system.

A sensitive fluorescent microfluidic sensor based on carbon quantum dots (CQDs), cadmium telluride quantum dots (CdTe QDs) aerogel and glucose oxidase (GOx) for urinal glucose detection was fabricated via a simple method.

Treatment of tendon-to-bone interface injury has long been challenging in sports medicine.

Illustration of pH-degradable microgels (MGs) for the simultaneous encapsulation of OA and JQ1 for an enhanced oncolytic viral treatment with JQ1-meidated boosting viral replication and PD-L1 suppression.

Nano-tailored DNA origami designs nanostructure the bioreceptor layer of encoded microparticles in an innovative microfluidic platform, hereby boosting biomolecular interactions.

Glutaraldehyde crosslinking significantly enhances the mechanical robustness of the originally compromised flow-assembled chitosan membranes after Pluronic passivation in microfluidics.

The encapsulation of cells into microgels is attractive for applications in tissue regeneration.

This work demonstrates sequence directed flexibility of neurodegenerative trinucleotide repeat sequences can be translated into distinct capillary flow using wax-on-plastic microfluidics and used to detect microsatellite repeat expansions diseases.