Introduction to microfluidics / Patrick Tabeling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tabeling, P., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Standardized Title:

Introduction à la microfluidique. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Microfluidics.

Microfluidic devices.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (479 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This second edition is a comprehensive update of 'Introduction to Microfluidics', showing the fundamentals of the technology, providing concepts and methods for understanding, designing and microfabricating microfluidics devices.

Contents:

Cover

Titlepage

Copyright

Dedication

Preface

Acknowledgements

Contents

1 Introduction

1.1 Astonishing microfluidic systems in nature

1.2 Exquisite microfluidic control in the human body

1.3 MEMS, the mother of microfluidics

1.4 The birth of microfluidics

1.5 The advent of soft technology

1.6 Diversification of the technology and broadening of the applications

1.7 MicroReaction Technology (MRT)

1.8 Nanofluidics

1.9 The microfluidic market

1.10 Future of microfluidics

1.11 Reviews and books

1.12 Organization of the book

References

2 Physics at the microscale

2.1 The scales of small things

2.2 Intermolecular Forces - basics

2.3 Nano-Micro and Millifluidics

2.4 The physics of miniaturization

2.5 Scaling laws in nature

2.6 Miniaturization of electrostatic systems

2.7 Miniaturization of electromagnetic systems

2.8Miniaturization of mechanical systems - the vibrating microbeam

2.9 Miniaturization of thermal systems

2.10 Sampling and throughput

3 Hydrodynamics of microfluidics 1: channels

3.1 The flow equations and the boundary conditions

3.2 Slippage in gases

3.3 Slippage in liquids

3.4 Microfluidics at small Reynolds numbers

3.5 Resistances and capacitances in microfluidics

3.6 Inertial microfluidics and millifluidics

4 Hydrodynamics of microfluidics 2: droplets

4.1Liquid-vapour interfaces

4.2 Laplace's law

4.3 Surfactants

4.3 Wetting

4.5 Droplets advancing on a surface

4.6 The governing equations and the capillary number

4.7 The Landau-Levich and Bretherton films

4.8 The Rayleigh-Plateau instability

4.9 Washburn law and paper microfluidics

4.10 Production of microfluidic droplets and bubbles

4.11 Characteristics of microfluidic droplets and bubbles

References.

5 Transport in microfluidics

5.1 The microscopic origin of diffusion

5.2 Advection-diffusion equation and its properties

5.3 Analysis of diffusion phenomena

5.4 Analysis of dispersion phenomena

5.5 Brief introduction to chaos and chaotic mixing

5.6 Mixing in microfluidic devices

5.7 Four applications of transport of matter in microfluidics

5.8 Transport of matter across interfaces

5.9 Particles and microfluidics

5.10 Particles in inertial regimes

5.11 Adsorption

5.12 Chromatography

5.13 Thermal transport by conduction

5.14 Convection-diffusion heat equation and properties

5.15 Heat transfer in the presence of a flow in microsystems

5.16 Evaporation and drying

5.17 Microexchangers for electronic components

6 Electrokinetics

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Basic notions of electrostatics of macroscopic media

6.3 The electrokinetic equations

6.4 The electrical double layer

6.5 Electro-osmosis

6.6 Electrophoresis

6.7 Microfluidic electrokinetic separation

6.8 Dielectrophoresis

6.9 Three illustrations/applications of dielectrophoresis

6.10 Electrowetting

7 An introduction to microfabrication

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Current situation of microtechnologies

7.3 The environment of microfabrication

7.4 Photolithography

7.5 Direct writing or maskless photolithography

7.6 Microfabrication methods for silicon and glass devices

7.7 PDMS-based moulding - soft lithography

7.8 Computer Numerical Control (CNC) Micromilling

7.9 3D Printing or Additive Manufacturing (AM)

7.10 Paper microfluidics

7.11 Other technologies

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2023.

Previous edition: 2005.

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Tabeling, Patrick Introduction to Microfluidics

ISBN:

9780192845306

9780191937606

0191937606

9780192660039

0192660039