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Themed issue on optofluidics out now

23 Aug 2012

Lab on a Chip is delighted to publish what we believe is the first issue dedicated to research in the exciting new field of optofluidics, guest edited by Professors Ai-Qun Liu (Nanyang Technological University) and Changhuei Yang (Caltech).

Read their editorial introduction to the issue, where they discuss some of the most innovative new developments in this rapidly blossoming field.

We’ve got some great artwork on the covers of this issue, highlighting the range of articles in this issue:

Katsuo Kurabayashi et al. have discussed the promise of optofluidic technologies to enable on-chip cellular phenotyping in their critical review which features on the outside front cover. On the inside front cover Joanna Aizenberg and colleagues have developed an ‘optofluidic nose’ – a litmus test which can differentiate organics liquids based on wetting, while on the back cover Teck Neng Wong et al. have created an optofluidic bi-concave lens to both focus and diverge a light source by applying an external electric field to a constant flow. On the other back cover Katsumi Midorikawa and coworkers fabricated highly sensitive optofluidic chips for biochemical liquid assays.

Don’t forget – all articles on our covers are free to access for 6 weeks! You just need to sign in with your RSC Publishing Personal Account.

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Our latest themed issue: Focus on USA

30 May 2012

We’ve just published another themed issue, this time looking at some of the exciting work from labs in the USA. The issue was partly inspired by the Wyss Institute Symposium on “Microfluidics and Medicine: Accelerating the Flow from Lab to the Clinic“, which focused on work in the microfluidics field that promises to have a transformative impact on medicine and clinical care.

Guest Editors Don Ingber and George Whitesides introduce the issue and discuss the impact of microfluidics on biological advances in their Editorial.

View the issue for HOT papers on high throughput drug screening, isolating rare circulating tumour cells, a microfluidic device that can screen whole worms and lots of organs on chips articles: brain slice on a chip and gut on a chip.

Remember, these articles are free to access for 4 weeks with an RSC Publishing account.

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Themed issue on analytical miniaturization and nanotechnologies just published

24 May 2012

Lab on a Chip is delighted to announce the publication of a themed issue dedicated to Analytical miniaturization and nanotechnologies, published in collaboration with the III International Workshop on Analytical Miniaturization and NANOtechnologies to be held next month in Barcelona. The issue was guest edited by Arben Merkoçi and Jörg P. Kutter, who introduce the issue in an editorial on the use of nanotechnologies and nanomaterials for the design and applications of lab-on-a-chip and other miniaturized analytical systems

We hope you will enjoy reading this collection of articles.

Tutorial Review

Lab-in-a-tube: ultracompact components for on-chip capture and detection of individual micro-/nanoorganisms
Elliot J. Smith, Wang Xi, Denys Makarov, Ingolf Mönch, Stefan Harazim, Vladimir A. Bolaños Quiñones, Christine K. Schmidt, Yongfeng Mei, Samuel Sanchez and Oliver G. Schmidt
Lab Chip, 2012, 12, 1917-1931
DOI: 10.1039/C2LC21175K

Critical Reviews

Nanomaterials and lab-on-a-chip technologies
Mariana Medina-Sánchez, Sandrine Miserere and Arben Merkoçi
Lab Chip, 2012, 12, 1932-1943
DOI: 10.1039/C2LC40063D

Cargo-towing synthetic nanomachines: Towards active transport in microchip devices
Joseph Wang
Lab Chip, 2012, 12, 1944-1950
DOI: 10.1039/C2LC00003B

Carbon nanotube based stationary phases for microchip chromatography
Klaus B. Mogensen and Jörg P. Kutter
Lab Chip, 2012, 12, 1951-1958
DOI: 10.1039/C2LC40102A

Communications

Glass/PDMS hybrid microfluidic device integrating vertically aligned SWCNTs to ultrasensitive electrochemical determinations
Fernando Cruz Moraes, Renato Sousa Lima, Thiago Pinotti Segato, Ivana Cesarino, Jhanisus Leonel Melendez Cetino, Sergio Antonio Spinola Machado, Frank Gomez and Emanuel Carrilho
Lab Chip, 2012, 12, 1959-1962
DOI: 10.1039/C2LC40141J

Contactless conductivity biosensor in microchip containing folic acid as bioreceptor
Renato S. Lima, Maria H. O. Piazzetta, Angelo L. Gobbi, Ubirajara P. Rodrigues-Filho, Pedro A. P. Nascente, Wendell K. T. Coltro and Emanuel Carrilho
Lab Chip, 2012, 12, 1963-1966
DOI: 10.1039/C2LC40157F

Papers

Bipolar electrochemistry for cargo-lifting in fluid channels
Gabriel Loget and Alexander Kuhn
Lab Chip, 2012, 12, 1967-1971
DOI: 10.1039/C2LC21301J

Capillary soft valves for microfluidics
Martina Hitzbleck, Laetitia Avrain, Valerie Smekens, Robert D. Lovchik, Pascal Mertens and Emmanuel Delamarche
Lab Chip, 2012, 12, 1972-1978
DOI: 10.1039/C2LC00015F

Microreactor with integrated temperature control for the synthesis of CdSe nanocrystals
Sara Gómez-de Pedro, Cynthia S. Martínez-Cisneros, Mar Puyol and Julián Alonso-Chamarro
Lab Chip, 2012, 12, 1979-1986
DOI: 10.1039/C2LC00011C

Nanophotonic lab-on-a-chip platforms including novel bimodal interferometers, microfluidics and grating couplers
Daphné Duval, Ana Belén González-Guerrero, Stefania Dante, Johann Osmond, Rosa Monge, Luis J. Fernández, Kirill E. Zinoviev, Carlos Domínguez and Laura M. Lechuga
Lab Chip, 2012, 12, 1987-1994
DOI: 10.1039/C2LC40054E

Printed two-dimensional photonic crystals for single-step label-free biosensing of insulin under wet conditions
Tatsuro Endo, Masaya Sato, Hiroshi Kajita, Norimichi Okuda, Satoru Tanaka and Hideaki Hisamoto
Lab Chip, 2012, 12, 1995-1999
DOI: 10.1039/C2LC40066A

On-chip electrochemical detection of CdS quantum dots using normal and multiple recycling flow through modes
Mariana Medina-Sánchez, Sandrine Miserere, Sergio Marín, Gemma Aragay and Arben Merkoçi
Lab Chip, 2012, 12, 2000-2005
DOI: 10.1039/C2LC00007E

High NIR-purity index single-walled carbon nanotubes for electrochemical sensing in microfluidic chips
Diana Vilela, Alejandro Ansón-Casaos, María Teresa Martínez, María Cristina González and Alberto Escarpa
Lab Chip, 2012, 12, 2006-2014
DOI: 0.1039/C2LC40099E

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Reminder: Emerging Investigators themed issue

17 Apr 2012

Emerging Investigators 2011 The deadline is fast approaching for Lab on a Chip‘s Emerging Investigators themed issue, guested edited by Professors Amy Herr and Aaron Wheeler.

If you plan to submit an article, we advise you to read our guidelines for authors prior to submission. Submissions should be made through http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/lc, noting in the ‘Comments to the Editor’ that the article is intended for the Emerging Investigators 2012 themed issue.

Please note that the submission deadline for this issue is extremely strict to tie in with the microTAS conference in October this year, therefore articles submitted after the 30^th April deadline may not be included in the themed issue. Submissions before this date are welcomed.

If you have any questions about your submission to this issue, please do not hesitate to email the Editorial Office.

If you would like more information about the Emerging Investigators themed issue, please read our Call for Papers.

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Call for papers: Emerging Investigators themed issue

20 Mar 2012

Lab on a Chip will again be publishing a themed issue dedicated to the work of Emerging Investigators, guested edited by Professors Amy Herr and Aaron Wheeler, with the aim of giving wide-spread exposure to current advances from new investigators and stimulate further progress in the field based on these new advances.

We are inviting promising researchers, to contribute original research in their own areas of expertise to make a valuable addition to the current literature via this exciting project. The Emerging Investigators themed issue will focus on technical contributions made by investigators who started their first independent position (e.g., Assistant Professor) within the last seven years.

We are hoping that you will be able to make a contribution of original, unpublished work conducted in your independent laboratory for this issue.

For an example of a previous Emerging Investigators issue, please see here.

The final submission deadline for manuscripts will be April 30, 2012, with the aim of publication to coincide with µTAS 2012, in late-October 2012. If you would like more information, or wish to contribute to this exciting issue, please contact the Lab on a Chip Editorial Office.

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Focus on German research just published

11 Jan 2012

We are delighted to publish another in our series of 10th Anniversary issues, this time focussed on lab on a chip and miniaturisation technologies from research groups in Germany, guest edited by Holger Becker and Andreas Manz.

Read their editorial to learn more on the developments and collaborations within the microfluidics field in Germany, and take a look at the author profiles of the contributors to the issue.

Despite the fact that Germany is not necessarily well known for its entrepreneurial culture and abundance of venture capital investments, that we find many microfluidics service providers in Germany which manufacture devices in materials such as polymers (e.g., microfluidic ChipShop, ThinXXS, Boehringer Ingelheim microparts, Bartels Mikrotechnik) or glass (e.g., Little Things Factory, iX factory) which have been active in this field for many years.
– Holger Becker and Andreas Manz

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Have you seen our new acoustofluidics tutorial series?

05 Jan 2012

A little while ago Henrik Bruus, Jurg Dual, Jeremy Hawkes, Martyn Hill, Thomas Laurell, Johan Nilsson, Stefan Radel, Satwindar Sadhal and Martin Wiklund met at the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences in northern Italy to give a lecture series on the theory and applications of ultrasonic standing wave technology and microfluidics. Out of this the idea for a series of tutorial papers was born, and Lab on a Chip is delighted to bring you the first few in the series:

Acoustofluidics 1: Governing equations in microfluidics
Henrik Bruus
DOI: 10.1039/C1LC20658C

Acoustofluidics 2: Perturbation theory and ultrasound resonance modes
Henrik Bruus
DOI: 10.1039/C1LC20770A

Acoustofluidics 3: Continuum mechanics for ultrasonic particle manipulation
Jurg Dual and Thomas Schwarz
DOI: 10.1039/C1LC20837C

Acoustofluidics 4: Piezoelectricity and application in the excitation of acoustic fields for ultrasonic particle manipulation
Jurg Dual and Dirk Möller
DOI: 10.1039/C1LC20913B

Don’t forget to check back soon for more articles in this exciting new area and if you have any comments on the series so far we’d love to hear them!

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Call for papers for themed issue focussed around the WAM-NANO2012 conference

27 Oct 2011

Lab on a Chip is pleased to announce a themed issue guest edited by Arben Merkoçi, Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology, and Jörg Kutter, Technical University of Denmark, and to open submissions for the issue.

The issue will be focussed around the III International Workshop on Analytical Miniaturization and NANOtechnologies (WAM-NANO2012) to be hosted in Barcelona, Spain, 11-12th June 2012, and will cover the latest international developments on the use of nanotechnologies and nanomaterials for the design and applications in lab-on-a-chip and other miniaturized analytical (bio) systems. The major focus of this issue will be on clinical, food safety and security applications of analytical (bio)systems in which nanotechnology enables novel devices and systems that provide the basis for better, more accessible healthcare, safety and security with improved outcomes for the citizen’s life.

Papers on the following topics are welcome:

– Novel nanotechnology based lab-on-a-chip (LOC) system designs (NANO-LOC)
– Nanofabricated based LOC designs
– Applications of NANO LOCs in diagnostics
– NANO-LOCs for safety and security
– Environmental control using NANO-LOCs
– Industrial applications of NANO-LOCs
– Nanotechnology based microfluidic /analytical devices (microarray, lateral flow etc)

Although the issue will be focused on WAM-NANO2012 additional contributions not related to this event but that fit the above topics will also be considered. Submission to the issue can be made through the Lab on a Chip online submission portal at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/lc and should be received by January 4th 2012 for inclusion in the issue.

Please email the LOC editorial office for more information loc-rsc[at]rsc.org.

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Issue 12 now available online – focussing on Dutch research

03 Jun 2011

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This month’s issue is the next instalment in our series of 10th anniversary issues, this time focussing on the best new research from the Netherlands. Sabeth Verpoorte introduces the issue in her Editorial, describing the progression from macro- to microfluidics in this small, but scientifically strong country.

The issue features work on floating electrodes from Albert van den Berg, artificial cilia from P. R. Onck and J. Westerweel, capillary Stokes drift from Dirk van den Ende, microbubble generation from José Gordillo, two-phase flow systems from Sabeth Verpoorte and micromolding from Michiel Kreutzer.

The issue also features HOT articles from Ryan Bailey, Masaya Hagiwara and Daniel Chiu:

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Issue 11 now online – 10th anniversary issue Singapore

19 May 2011

View the issue online here

As part of our 10th anniversary series we are delighted to publish this issue which includes a collection of articles focussed on lab on a chip research in Singapore.

Read guest editor Ai-Qun Liu‘s editorial, which introduces this themed issue dedicated to the memory of Professor Zhao-Lun Fang, formerly of the Zhe Jiang University, and check out the author profiles from Yi-Chin Toh, Tae Goo Kang, Danny van Noort, Bill Burkholder and Jing Bo Zhang.

The issue also includes plenty of regular content, and a HOT article on the inside front cover from Claire Wilhelm and Nicole Pamme on cell sorting by endocytotic capacity in a microfluidic magnetophoresis device.

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