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Oscillatory multiphase flow strategy for chemistry and biology

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Lab Chip, 2016, 16, 2775
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Advancing droplet-based microbiological assays: optofluidic detection meets multiplexed droplet generation

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Analyst, 2025, 150, 3137
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Rapid parallel generation of a fluorescently barcoded drop library from a microtiter plate using the plate-interfacing parallel encapsulation (PIPE) chip

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Lab Chip, 2022, 22, 4735
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Streamlined digital bioassays with a 3D printed sample changer

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Analyst, 2020, 145, 572
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Microfluidic droplet trapping, splitting and merging with feedback controls and state space modelling

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Lab Chip, 2016, 16, 3317
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Microfluidic on-demand droplet merging using surface acoustic waves

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Lab Chip, 2014, 14, 3325
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A droplet microfluidic system for sequential generation of lipid bilayers and transmembrane electrical recordings

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Lab Chip, 2015, 15, 541
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A passive microfluidic system based on step emulsification allows the generation of libraries of nanoliter-sized droplets from microliter droplets of varying and known concentrations of a sample

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Lab Chip, 2017, 17, 1323
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Grooved step emulsification systems optimize the throughput of passive generation of monodisperse emulsions

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Lab Chip, 2019, 19, 1183
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Liquid-capped encoded microcapsules for multiplex assays

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Lab Chip, 2017, 17, 429
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Highly flexible and accurate serial picoinjection in droplets by combined pressure and flow rate control

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Lab Chip, 2022, 22, 3475
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Reusable EWOD-based microfluidic system for active droplet generation

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Lab Chip, 2025, 25, 225
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Low-volume multiplexed proteolytic activity assay and inhibitor analysis through a pico-injector array

Ee Xien Ng, Miles A. Miller, Tengyang Jing, Doug A. Lauffenburger and Chia-Hung Chen

Lab Chip, 2015, 15, 1153
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Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling optimization enabled by automated feedback

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dDrop-Chip: disposable film-chip microfluidic device for real-time droplet feedback control

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Lab Chip, 2023, 23, 1896
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Droplet microfluidics for microbiology: techniques, applications and challenges

Tomasz S. Kaminski, Ott Scheler and Piotr Garstecki

Lab Chip, 2016, 16, 2168
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Surface acoustic wave enabled pipette on a chip

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Lab Chip, 2017, 17, 438
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A precise and accurate microfluidic droplet dilutor

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Analyst, 2017, 142, 2901
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Study of Active Janus Particles in the Presence of an Engineered Oil–Water Interface

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Langmuir, 2021, 37, 204
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Customizing droplet contents and dynamic ranges via integrated programmable picodroplet assembler

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Microsyst Nanoeng, 2019, 5
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Droplet-Based Microfluidics: Enabling Impact on Drug Discovery

Oliver J. Dressler, Richard M. Maceiczyk, Soo-Ik Chang and Andrew J. deMello

SLAS Discovery, 2014, 19, 483
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Automated and miniaturized screening of antibiotic combinations via robotic-printed combinatorial droplet platform

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Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2024, 14, 1801
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Droplet-based microfluidics: an efficient high-throughput portable system for cell encapsulation

Hengameh Dortaj, Ali Mohammad Amani, Lobat Tayebi, Negar Azarpira, Mahtab Ghasemi Toudeshkchouei, Ashraf Hassanpour-Dehnavi, Neda Karami, Milad Abbasi, Atefeh Najafian-Najafabadi, Zeinab Zarei Behjani and Ahmad Vaez

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An Automated Microfluidic System for the Generation of Droplet Interface Bilayer Networks

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Micromachines, 2017, 8, 93
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Droplet Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry for High Throughput Screening for Enzyme Inhibitors

Shuwen Sun and Robert T. Kennedy

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Microfluidic Chamber Design for Controlled Droplet Expansion and Coalescence

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Micromachines, 2020, 11, 394
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Color-Coded Droplets and Microscopic Image Analysis for Multiplexed Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing

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Biosensors, 2021, 11, 283
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Individual Control and Quantification of 3D Spheroids in a High-Density Microfluidic Droplet Array

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Cell Reports, 2020, 31, 107670
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DNA-library assembly programmed by on-demand nano-liter droplets from a custom microfluidic chip

Uwe Tangen, Gabriel Antonio S. Minero, Abhishek Sharma, Patrick F. Wagler, Rafael Cohen, Ofir Raz, Tzipy Marx, Tuval Ben-Yehezkel and John S. McCaskill

Biomicrofluidics, 2015, 9
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Bacterial Growth and Adaptation in Microdroplet Chemostats

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Angewandte Chemie, 2013, 125, 9076
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Droplet Microfluidics for High-Throughput Analysis of Antibiotic Susceptibility in Bacterial Cells and Populations

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Acc. Chem. Res., 2022, 55, 605
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CO2-Laser-Micromachined, Polymer Microchannels with a Degassed PDMS slab for the Automatic Production of Monodispersed Water-in-Oil Droplets

Akitsu Ogo, Shotaro Okayama, Masaya Nakatani and Masahiko Hashimoto

Micromachines, 2022, 13, 1389
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Enhancing Throughput of Combinatorial Droplet Devices via Droplet Bifurcation, Parallelized Droplet Fusion, and Parallelized Detection

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Micromachines, 2015, 6, 1490
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Hands-Off Preparation of Monodisperse Emulsion Droplets Using a Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Microfluidic Chip for Droplet Digital PCR

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Anal. Chem., 2015, 87, 4134
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Bacterial Growth and Adaptation in Microdroplet Chemostats

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Angew Chem Int Ed, 2013, 52, 8908
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From specialization to broad adoption: Key trends in droplet microfluidic innovations enhancing accessibility to non-experts

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Droplet based microfluidic and miniaturization at high-throughput level to screening heterologous secondary metabolites in microbes: A critical review

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Facile and scalable tubing-free sample loading for droplet microfluidics

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Sci Rep, 2022, 12
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Dodecylresorufin (C12R) Outperforms Resorufin in Microdroplet Bacterial Assays

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ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2016, 8, 11318
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Artificial Intelligence‐Empowered Automated Double Emulsion Droplet Library Generation

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Emerging trends in the optimization of organic synthesis through high-throughput tools and machine learning

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Accelerating bacterial growth detection and antimicrobial susceptibility assessment in integrated picoliter droplet platform

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Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2017, 97, 260
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Rapid serial diluting biomicrofluidic provides EC50 in minutes

Raphael Ortiz, Jian Lin Chen, David C. Stuckey and Terry W.J. Steele

Micro and Nano Engineering, 2019, 2, 92
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High diversity droplet microfluidic libraries generated with a commercial liquid spotter

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