title: Microfluidics for food, agriculture and biosystems industries.
abstract: Microfluidics, a rapidly emerging enabling technology has the potential to revolutionize food, agriculture and biosystems industries. Examples of potential applications of microfluidics in food industry include nano-particle encapsulation of fish oil, monitoring pathogens and toxins in food and water supplies, micro-nano-filtration for improving food quality, detection of antibiotics in dairy food products, and generation of novel food structures. In addition, microfluidics enables applications in agriculture and animal sciences such as nutrients monitoring and plant cells sorting for improving crop quality and production, effective delivery of biopesticides, simplified in vitro fertilization for animal breeding, animal health monitoring, vaccination and therapeutics. Lastly, microfluidics provides new approaches for bioenergy research. This paper synthesizes information of selected microfluidics-based applications for food, agriculture and biosystems industries.
authors: Biological and Nanoscale Systems Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA. suresh.neethirajan@gmail.com
authors: Suresh
authors: S
authors: Neethirajan
authors: Isao
authors: I
authors: Kobayashi
authors: Mitsutoshi
authors: M
authors: Nakajima
authors: Dan
authors: D
authors: Wu
authors: Saravanan
authors: S
authors: Nandagopal
authors: Francis
authors: F
authors: Lin
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D001709:Biotechnology; D019649:Food Industry; D046210:Microfluidic Analytical Techniques