ReviewLab on a chip2024
Open microfluidics: droplet microarrays as next generation multiwell plates for high throughput screening.
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- High-Density E. Coli Cultivation Arrays for Combinatorial Drug Testing With Subsequent Lipid Profiling by MALDI-MS.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Droplet-Engineered Scalable High-Throughput Perovskite Micropatterning for Next-Generation Optoelectronics.ACS nano · 2026Review
- Automating Vascular Biology: An End-to-End Automated Workflow for High-Throughput Blood Vessel-on-a-Chip Production and Multi-Site Validation.Advanced healthcare materials · 2026Article
- Liquid-in-Liquid Prints: High-Density Biochemically Encoded Information Preserved in Microdroplet Arrays.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Article
- Lab on an end: Micromanipulation using the acoustohydrodynamic pillar array as an end effector.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Solid Medium Droplet Microarray for Miniaturized Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test.Small science · 2025Article
- Two-Layer Droplet Arrays Enable Dynamic Manipulation of Cell Microenvironment During High-Throughput Bacterial Cultivation.Small methods · 2025Article
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- Water Impact on Superhydrophobic Surface: One Hydrophilic Spot Morphing and Controlling Droplet Rebounce.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Automation of a Capillary-Wave Microbioreactor Platform to Enhance Phage Sensitivity Screen Efficiency.Engineering in life sciences · 2025Article
- Drug-Induced Differential Gene Expression Analysis on Nanoliter Droplet Microarrays: Enabling Tool for Functional Precision Oncology.Advanced healthcare materials · 2025Article
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- Extremophiles in a changing world.Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions · 2024Review
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Abstract
Multiwell plates are prominent in the biological and chemical sciences; however, they face limitations in terms of throughput and deployment in emerging bioengineering fields. Droplet microarrays, as an open microfluidic technology, organise tiny droplets typically in the order of thousands, on an accessible plate. In this perspective, we summarise current approaches for generating droplets, fluid handling on them, and analysis within droplet microarrays. By enabling unique plate engineering opportunities, demonstrating the necessary experimental procedures required for manipulating and interacting with biological cells, and integrating with label-free analytical techniques, droplet microarrays can be deployed across a more extensive experimental domain than what is currently covered by multiwell plates. Droplet microarrays thus offer a solution to the bottlenecks associated with multiwell plates, particularly in the areas of biological cultivation and high-throughput compound screening.
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