ReviewRSC advances2020
Advances in passively driven microfluidics and lab-on-chip devices: a comprehensive literature review and patent analysis.
Review in RSC advances, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 71 papers.
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Who cites it
71 citing papers in PubMed.
- Versatile Microfluidic System for Creating Recirculating Unidirectional Flow for On-Chip Cultures of Barrier Tissues.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- From flow to form: structuring and patterning hydrogels using microfluidic approaches.Lab on a chip · 2026Review
- Gravity-driven microfluidic synthesis of lipid nanoparticles via vibrating sharp-tip mixing.Biofabrication · 2026Article
- Immune organoids for Africa: a roadmap for bridging the innovation gap in infectious diseases and cancer research.Journal of the Egyptian National Cancer Institute · 2026Review
- Machine Learning-Driven Capillary Microfluidic Design Automation for Programmable Gradient Generation and Antimicrobial Testing.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026Article
- Integrated microfluidic biosensors: shaping the future of quantitative life sciences and on-chip molecular diagnostics.Lab on a chip · 2026Review
- Recent developments in surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy-based immuno (apta) assays for cardiac troponin detection: prospects for point-of-care applications.Biophysical reviews · 2026Review
- Organ-on-a-Chip and Lab-on-a-Chip Technologies in Cardiac Tissue Engineering.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Emerging Microfluidic Plasma Separation Technologies for Point-of-Care Diagnostics: Moving Beyond Conventional Centrifugation.Biosensors · 2025Review
- Present and future of smart functional materials as actuators in microfluidic devices.Lab on a chip · 2025Review
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- Lab-on-PCB with integrated DNA amplification and electroanalytical detection for point-of-care diagnostics.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Microfluidic technologies for wearable and implantable biomedical devices.Lab on a chip · 2025Review
- Microfluidic and Turbulent Mixing for mRNA LNP Vaccines.Pharmaceutics · 2025Review
- AI-CMCA: a deep learning-based segmentation framework for capillary microfluidic chip analysis.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Wearable Device for Continuous and Real-Time Monitoring of Human Sweat Sodium.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A Compact Hydraulic Head Auto-Regulating Module (CHARM) for long-term constant gravity-driven flow microfluidics.Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2025Article
- Elastocapillary sequential fluid capture in hummingbird-inspired grooved sheets.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Five-membered heterocycles as promising platforms for molecular logic gate construction.RSC advances · 2025Review
- A passive flow microreactor for urine creatinine test.Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2025Article
11 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
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Abstract
The development of passively driven microfluidic labs on chips has been increasing over the years. In the passive approach, the microfluids are usually driven and operated without any external actuators, fields, or power sources. Passive microfluidic techniques adopt osmosis, capillary action, surface tension, pressure, gravity-driven flow, hydrostatic flow, and vacuums to achieve fluid flow. There is a great need to explore labs on chips that are rapid, compact, portable, and easy to use. The evolution of these techniques is essential to meet current needs. Researchers have highlighted the vast potential in the field that needs to be explored to develop rapid passive labs on chips to suit market/researcher demands. A comprehensive review, along with patent analysis, is presented here, listing the latest advances in passive microfluidic techniques, along with the related mechanisms and applications.
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