title: Logic digital fluidic in miniaturized functional devices: Perspective to the next generation of microfluidic lab-on-chips.
abstract: Microfluidics has emerged following the quest for scale reduction inherent to micro- and nanotechnologies. By definition, microfluidics manipulates fluids in small channels with dimensions of tens to hundreds of micrometers. Recently, microfluidics has been greatly developed and its influence extends not only the domains of chemical synthesis, bioanalysis, and medical researches but also optics and information technology. In this review article, we will shortly discuss an enlightening analogy between electrons transport in electronics and fluids transport in microfluidic channels. This analogy helps to master transport and sorting. We will present some complex microfluidic devices showing that the analogy is going a long way off toward more complex components with impressive similarities between electronics and microfluidics. We will in particular explore the vast manifold of fluidic operations with passive and active fluidic components, respectively, as well as the associated mechanisms and corresponding applications. Finally, some relevant applications and an outlook will be cited and presented.
authors.affiliation: Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies, CNRS UMR-9001, Univ. Paris Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, C2N, France.
authors.forename: Qiongdi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies, CNRS UMR-9001, Univ. Paris Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, C2N, France.
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies, CNRS UMR-9001, Univ. Paris Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, C2N, France.
authors.forename: Lyas
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Djeghlaf
authors.affiliation: Institut Galien Paris Sud, CNRS UMR-8612, Univ. Paris Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Châtenay-Malabry, France.
authors.forename: Jeanne
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bataille
authors.affiliation: Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies, CNRS UMR-9001, Univ. Paris Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, C2N, France.
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gamby
authors.affiliation: Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies, CNRS UMR-9001, Univ. Paris Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, C2N, France.
authors.forename: Anne-Marie
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Haghiri-Gosnet
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, CNRS UMR-8000, Univ. Paris Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France.
authors.forename: Antoine
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pallandre
mesh_terms: D056656:Lab-On-A-Chip Devices / Q000639:trends*; D046210:Microfluidic Analytical Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000639:trends
keywords: Electronic fluidic analogies; Logic digital microfluidic; Microfluidic