Lab on a Chip Blog

As part of our 10th anniversary series we focus this month on UK research, with an introductory editorial from  Andrew deMello and Hywel Morgan.

Highlighted on the front cover is work by John deMello and colleagues, applying enhanced temperatures for micro continuous-flow synthesis of nanoparticles with excellent reaction control:

A stable droplet reactor for high temperature nanocrystal synthesis
A. M. Nightingale, S. H. Krishnadasan, D. Berhanu, X. Niu, C. Drury, R. McIntyre, E. Valsami-Jones and J. C. deMello

On the inside front cover we have work from Miles Padgett and Roberto Di Leonardo. In their critical review they provide a comprehensive overview of optical tweezers and holographic optical tweezers for lab-on-a-chip applications:

Holographic optical tweezers and their relevance to lab on chip devices
Miles Padgett and Roberto Di Leonardo

The issue also includes HOT articles on observations of the positional dependence of particles in microfludic impedance cytometry, a great new method for fast, cheap PDMS patterning using direct UV lithography and on the back cover we highlight a microfluidic paper-based chemiluminescence biosensor for simultaneous glucose and uric acid developed by Jinghua Yu et al.

LOC is pleased to bring you the next instalment in our 10th anniversary themed issues – this edition focusses on French research.

The issue includes an excellent range of articles from fundamental studies to developments in biology-inspired physics and micro/nanotechnologies.  Contributors to the issue include Charles Baroud, Stephanie Descroix, Anne-Marie Haghiri-Gosnet, Benoit Ladoux, Emmanuel Mignard, Patrick Tabeling and Jean-Louis Viovy.

Jean-Louis Viovy was our Guest Editor for the issue, read his thoughts on the progress of  microfluidics in France in his editorial here, view the great content online here and let us know what you think!