Inertial microfluidics: current status, challenges, and future opportunities.
Nan XiangZhonghua NiPublished in: Lab on a chip (2022)
Inertial microfluidics uses the hydrodynamic effects induced at finite Reynolds numbers to achieve passive manipulation of particles, cells, or fluids and offers the advantages of high-throughput processing, simple channel geometry, and label-free and external field-free operation. Since its proposal in 2007, inertial microfluidics has attracted increasing interest and is currently widely employed as an important sample preparation protocol for single-cell detection and analysis. Although great success has been achieved in the inertial microfluidics field, its performance and outcome can be further improved. From this perspective, herein, we reviewed the current status, challenges, and opportunities of inertial microfluidics concerning the underlying physical mechanisms, available simulation tools, channel innovation, multistage, multiplexing, or multifunction integration, rapid prototyping, and commercial instrument development. With an improved understanding of the physical mechanisms and the development of novel channels, integration strategies, and commercial instruments, improved inertial microfluidic platforms may represent a new foundation for advancing biomedical research and disease diagnosis.
Keyphrases
- current status
- label free
- high throughput
- single cell
- physical activity
- rna seq
- loop mediated isothermal amplification
- high glucose
- patient reported outcomes
- quantum dots
- endothelial cells
- drug induced
- mass spectrometry
- endoplasmic reticulum stress
- stress induced
- molecularly imprinted
- high resolution
- liquid chromatography
- sensitive detection