Microfluidics
Reading material
I taught a graduate microfluidics course this semester.
Squires and Quake's "Microfluidics: Fluid physics at the nanoliter scale" provides a good overview. Also read Purcell's "Life at low Reynolds number."
Xia and Whitesides' review "Soft Lithography" presents microfluidic device design principles. It explains why channels have certain aspect ratios and shapes.
Howard Berg's book "Random Walks in Biology" explains gradient formation. Viktor Shkolnikov's "Principles of Microfluidics" provides a mathematical treatment of design principles.
Most experts learned microfluidics through hands-on experience. Common practices often exist because they work.
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Related
- Pressure - Pressure-driven microflow analysis
- Pump - Microfluidic pumping mechanisms
- Gas Dynamics - Fluid mechanics fundamentals
- Polymer - PDMS soft lithography materials
- O-ring - Sealing microfluidic connections
- Vacuum - Plasma bonding of PDMS devices
- FEA - Numerical simulation of microflows
- Reynolds Number Calculator - Stokes vs inertial flow regime