Multidisciplinary Projects

Cover Articles

Drug Screening on Digital Microfluidics for Cancer Precision Medicine

Jiao Zhai, Yingying Liu, Weiqing Ji, Xinru Huang, Ping Wang, Yunyi Li, Haoran Li, Ada Hang-Heng Wong, Xiong Zhou, Ping Chen, Lianhong Wang, Ning Yang, Chi Chen, Haitian Chen, Pui-In Mak, Chu-Xia Deng, Rui Martins, Mengsu Yang, Tsung-Yi Ho, Shuhong Yi*, Hailong Yao*, Yanwei Jia*

A syndromic diagnostic assay on macrochannel-to-digital microfluidic platform for automatic identification of multiple respiratory pathogens 

Cheng Dong, Fei Li, Yun Sun, Dongling Long, Chunzhao Chen, Mengyan Li, Tao Wei, Rui P Martins, Tianlan Chen and Pui-In Mak

Absolute Quantification of Nucleic Acid on Digital Microfluidics Platform Based on Superhydrophobic–Superhydrophilic Micropatterning 

Li Meng, Mingzhong Li, Zhenyu Xu, Aman Lv, Yanwei Jia, Meiwan Chen, Pui-In Mak, Rui P. Martins, Man-Kay Law 

Sub-5-Minute Ultrafast PCR using Digital Microfluidics

L. Wan, M. Li, M.-K. Law, P.-I. Mak, and R. P. Martins, Y. Jia 

One-shot High-resolution Melting Curve Analysis for KRAS Point-Mutation Discrimination on a Digital Microfluidics Platform

M. Li, L. Wan, M.-K. Law, L. Meng, Y. Jia, P.-I. Mak, and R. P. Martins

Ratiometric fluorescence analysis for miR-141 detection with hairpin DNA-templated silver nanoclusters

M. Li, R. Shen, H. Li, Y. Jia, P.-I. Mak, and R. P. Martins

Cancer Drug Screening with On-Chip Multi-Drug Dispenser in Digital Microfluidics 

J. Zhai, C. Li, H. Li, S. Yi, N. Yang, K. Miao, C. Deng, Y. Jia, P.-I. Mak, and R. P. Martins

Temperature Tolerance Electric Cell-Substrate Impedance Sensing (ECIS) for Joint Assessment of Cell Viability and Vitality

N. Yang, W. Hui, S. Dong, X. Zhang, L. Shao, Y. Jia, P.-I. Mak, and R. P. Martins

Turning on/off satellite droplets ejection for flexible sample delivery on digital microfluidics 

H. Li, R. Shen, C. Dong, T. Chen, Y. Jia, P.-I. Mak, and R. P. Martins

Clip-to-Release on Amplification (CRoA): a Novel DNA Amplification Enhancer on and off Microfluidics 

R. Shen, Y. Jia, P.-I. Mak, and R. P. Martins

Portable NMR with Parallelism

K.-M. Lei, D. Ha, Y.-Q. Song, R. Westervelt, R. P. Martins, P.-I. Mak, and D. Ham 

A Digital Microfluidic System with 3D Microstructures for Single-Cell Culture 

J. Zhai, H. Li, A. H.-H. Wong, C. Dong, S. Yi, Y. Jia, P.-I. Mak, C. Deng, and R. P. Martins 

Hydrodynamic-flow-enhanced rapid mixer for isothermal DNA hybridization kinetics analysis on digital microfluidics platform 

M. Li, C. Dong, M.-K. Law, Y. Jia, P.-I. Mak, and R. P. Martins

LampPort - a handheld digital microfluidic device for loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) 

L. Wan, J. Gao, T. Chen, C. Dong, H. Li, Y.-Z. Wen, Z.-R. Lun, Y. Jia, P.-I. Mak, and R. P. Martins

Exploring the Behavior of Water Nanodroplet on a Coplanar Electrowetting-on-Dielectric: A Molecular Dynamics Approach 

H. K. Chan, P.-I. Mak, and S. W. I. Siu 

3D Microblade Structure for Precise and Parallel Droplet Splitting on Digital Microfluidic Chips 

C. Dong, Y. Jia, J. Gao, T. Chen, P.-I. Mak, M.-I Vai, and R. P. Martins 

A digital microfluidic system for loop-mediated isothermal amplification and sequence specific pathogen detection 

L. Wan, T. Chen, J. Gao, C. Dong, A. H.-H. Wong, Y. Jia, P.-I. Mak, C.-X. Deng and R. P. Martins 

CMOS Biosensors for In Vitro Diagnosis - Transducing Mechanisms and Applications 

K.-M. Lei, P.-I. Mak, M.-K. Law and R. P. Martins 

Sub-7-Second Genotyping of Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism by High-Resolution Melting Curve Analysis on a Thermal Digital Microfluidic Device 

T. Chen, Y. Jia, C. Dong, J. Gao, P.-I. Mak, and R. P. Martins, 

Drug Screening of Cancer Cell Lines and Human Primary Tumors Using Droplet Microfluidics 

A. H.-H. Wong, H. Li, Y. Jia, P.-I. Mak, R. P. Martins, Y. Liu, C. M. Vong, H. C. Wong, P. K. Wong, H. Wang, H. Sun, C.-X. Deng

ProtPOS: a python package for the prediction of protein preferred orientation on a surface 

J. C. F. Ngai, P.-I. Mak, and S. W. I. Siu 

A Palm-Size µNMR Relaxometer Using a Digital Microfluidic Device and a Semiconductor Transceiver for Chemical/Biological Diagnosis 

K.-M. Lei, P.-I. Mak, M.-K. Law and R. P. Martins 

On the Droplet Velocity and Electrode Lifetime of Digital Microfluidics: Voltage Actuation Techniques and Comparison 

C. Dong, T. Chen, J. Gao, Y. Jia, P.-I. Mak, M.-I Vai and R. P. Martins 

Adhesion Promoter for Multi-dielectric-layer on Digital Microfluidic Chip

J. Gao, T. Chen, C. Dong, Y. Jia, P.-I. Mak, M.-I Vai and R. P. Martins 

NMR-DMF: a Modular Nuclear Magnetic Resonance–Digital Microfluidics System for Biological Assays 

K.-M. Lei, P.-I. Mak, M.-K. Law and R. P. Martins

Natural Discharge after Pulse and Cooperative Electrodes to Enhance Droplet Velocity in Digital Microfluidics 

T. Chen, C. Dong, J. Gao, Y. Jia, P.-I. Mak, M.-I Vai and R. P. Martins 

Construction of a Microfluidic Chip for LATE-PCR Amplification and Detection of Single-Stranded DNA using Dried-Down Reagents 

Y. Jia, P.-I. Mak, C. Massey, R. P. Martins and L. J. Wangh 

An Intelligent Digital Microfluidic System with Fuzzy-Enhanced Feedback for Multi-Droplet Manipulation 

J. Gao, X. Liu, T. Chen, P.-I. Mak, Y. Du, M.-I Vai, B. Lin and R. P. Martins