Microfluidics and Microsensors: Applications for Life Sciences, Drug Discovery and Medical Diagnostics

by Ron Bardell, Catherine Cabrera, Bernhard Weigl

"Microfluidics and Microsensors" offers guidelines to both students and practitioners on the advantages and disadvantages of microscale technologies, and how to move to microscale instrumentation. It gives the reader an intuitive and qualitative understanding of the unique surface, volume, distance and energy parameters that affect the behaviour of biological sample at the microscale. Also included are practical methods on designing all subcomponents of microscale analysis devices, including sample introduction and preparation, mixing and aliquoting, separation, chemical reactions, and detection, as well as the integration of these subcomponents. These methods, amongst others, are put into the context of current stateof theart technology, and the requirements of the end user of such devices.

400 pages, Hardcover

Published October 1, 2008