title: Manufacturing methods and applications of membranes in microfluidics.
abstract: Applications of membranes in microfluidics solved many thorny problems for analytical chemistry and bioscience, so that the use of membranes in microfluidics has been a topic of growing interest. Many different examples have been reported, demonstrating the versatile use of membranes. This work reviews a lot of applications of membranes in microfluidics. Membranes in microfluidics for applications including chemical reagents detection, gas detection, drug screening, cell, protein, microreactor, electrokinetical fluid, pump and valve and fluid transport control and so on, have been analyzed and discussed. In addition, the definition and basic concepts of membranes are summed up. And the methods of manufacturing membranes in microfluidics are discussed. This paper will provide a helpful reference to researchers who want to study applications of membranes in microfluidics.
authors: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Liaoning University of Technology, Jinzhou, 121001, China. xueye_chen@126.com.
authors: Xueye
authors: X
authors: Chen
authors: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Liaoning University of Technology, Jinzhou, 121001, China.
authors: Jienan
authors: J
authors: Shen
authors: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Liaoning University of Technology, Jinzhou, 121001, China.
authors: Zengliang
authors: Z
authors: Hu
authors: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Liaoning University of Technology, Jinzhou, 121001, China.
authors: Xuyao
authors: X
authors: Huo
mesh_terms: D056656:Lab-On-A-Chip Devices; D008567:Membranes, Artificial
chemical_list: D008567:Membranes, Artificial
keywords: Applications; Manufacturing methods; Membranes; Microfluidics