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Papers

(The median citation count of Biomicrofluidics is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
I-LIFT (image-based laser-induced forward transfer) platform for manipulating encoded microparticles	51
Microflows in two-generation alveolar cells at an acinar bifurcation	45
Epithelial and mesenchymal phenotypes determine the dynamics of circulating breast tumor cells in microfluidic capillaries under chemotherapy-induced stress	38
Trajectory analysis of Bacillus subtilis in micro-droplets	37
Erratum: “Mechanical interaction between a hydrogel and an embedded cell in biomicrofluidic applications” [Biomicrofluidics 19, 024104 (2025)]	31
Thermal bubble single-cell printing chip: High-throughput, wide-field, and efficient	22
Recent advances in microscale techniques for red blood cells manipulation	22
Dynamic cellular responses to gravitational forces: Exploring the impact on white blood cell(s)	21
Nanogap traps for passive bacteria concentration and single-point confocal Raman spectroscopy	21
Long-term cultured microvascular networks on chip for tumor vascularization research and drug testing	21
Recent advances in label-free optical, electrochemical, and electronic biosensors for glioma biomarkers	21
Design of a flexing organ-chip to model in situ loading of the intervertebral disc	21
Manipulation of close-packed hydrogel microbeads in microscale channels: A review on fundamentals and biomedical applications	20
Preface to the Special Topic: Microfluidics, Circulating Biomarkers and Cancer	19
Synergy of robotics and microfluidics for intelligent micro- and nanomanipulation	19
pH effects on capture efficiency and deposition patterns in sessile droplet immunoassays: An XDLVO analysis	16
Simultaneous high-throughput particle-bacteria separation and solution exchange via in-plane and out-of-plane parallelization of microfluidic centrifuges	16
The enhancement of DNA fragmentation in a bench top ultrasonic water bath with needle-induced air bubbles: Simulation and experimental investigation	15
Recent advances in microfluidic-based spectroscopic approaches for pathogen detection	15
Artificial intelligence-driven electrochemical immunosensing biochips in multi-component detection	15
Microfluidic sweat patch based on capillary force and evaporation pump for real-time continuous sweat analysis	14
Liver-on-a-chip: Considerations, advances, and beyond	14
Lateral force separation of biopolymers using an atomic force microscope	13
A microfluidic technique for measuring fiber-level mass transport efficiency and hemolysis of blood oxygenators	13
Microfluidic-to-macrofluidic: A simple in vitro model of atherosclerosis induced by fluidic stimulation	13

A microfluidic sucrose gap platform using trilaminar flow with on-chip switching and novel calibration: Challenges and limitations	13
Improved acoustic holograms using simulated annealing	13
Investigating the effect of phospholipids on droplet formation and surface property evolution in microfluidic devices for droplet interface bilayer (DIB) formation	13
A brief overview of passive microvalves in microfluidics: Mechanism, manufacturing, and applications	12
Microfluidic supercritical CO2 applications: Solvent extraction, nanoparticle synthesis, and chemical reaction	12
Intelligent organ-on-chip platforms: Machine learning in predictive and personalized drug delivery	12
Digital microfluidics methods for nucleic acid detection: A mini review	12
Parallel study of transient dosing of antibiotics in a microfluidic device	11
Paper-based microfluidics: Analyte-driven imbibition under the lens	11
Continuous separation of bacterial cells from large debris using a spiral microfluidic device	11
Mechanically mediated cargo delivery to cells using microfluidic devices	11
Microfluidics and nanofluidics in India – some recent advancements and futuristic perspective	11
Manually pressurized droplet digital PCR chip for rapid SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics	11
Laser induced graphanized microfluidic devices	11
Soluto-thermal Marangoni convection in stationary micro-bioreactors on heated substrates: Tool for in vitro diagnosis of PSA	11
Application and prospect of microfluidic devices for rapid assay of cell activities in the tumor microenvironment	11
Biphasic flow dynamics and polarized mass transportation in branched hepatic sinusoids	11
On-chip dielectrophoretic device for cancer cell manipulation: A numerical and artificial neural network study	11
High-Q WGM microcavity-based optofluidic sensor technologies for biological analysis	10
Cell pairing for biological analysis in microfluidic devices	10
Brain organoid-on-a-chip: A next-generation human brain avatar for recapitulating human brain physiology and pathology	10
A miniaturized culture platform for control of the metabolic environment	10
Hepatic spheroid-on-a-chip: Fabrication and characterization of a spheroid-based in vitro model of the human liver for drug screening applications	9
Organ-specific vasculature-on-a-chip systems	9
Mimicking blood and lymphatic vasculatures using microfluidic systems	9
Recent advances in microfluidic-based cancer immunotherapy-on-a-chip strategies	9
Micromixing within microfluidic devices: Fundamentals, design, and fabrication	9
Confinement effect on the microcapillary flow and shape of red blood cells	9
Addressable microfluidics technology for non-sacrificial analysis of biomaterial implants in vivo	9
Engineering porous membranes mimicking in vivo basement membrane for organ-on-chips applications	9
An in vitro multi-organ microphysiological system (MPS) to investigate the gut-to-brain translocation of neurotoxins	9
Low-cost and convenient fabrication of polymer micro/nanopores with the needle punching process and their applications in nanofluidic sensing	9
Design automation for deterministic lateral displacement by leveraging deep Q-network	9
Inkjet-printed microgel-based etalon sensor	9
Microfluidic synthesis as a new route to produce novel functional materials	9
Developing a piezoresistive sensor based bionic neurological intraoperative monitoring system for spine surgery skill training	8
High-precision, cost-effective manufacturing of fused silica microchannels through CNC milling and detachable bonding	8
Nanoextraction based on surface nanodroplets for chemical preconcentration and determination	8
Extracellular vesicle and lipoprotein diagnostics (ExoLP-Dx) with membrane sensor: A robust microfluidic platform to overcome heterogeneity	8
Naturally derived colloidal rods in microfluidic flows	8
Organoid-on-a-chip: Current challenges, trends, and future scope toward medicine	8
A high-throughput flowless microfluidic single and multi-solute concentration gradient generator: Design and parametric study	8
Toward droplets displaying life-like interaction behaviors	8
Dean vortex-enhanced blood plasma separation in self-driven spiral microchannel flow with cross-flow microfilters	8
The influence of hemoglobin and ion interactions on the electrical conductivity of hemoglobin solutions	8
Wall shear gradient dependent thrombosis studied in blood-on-a-chip with stenotic, branched, and valvular constructions	8
Nano/microfluidic device for high-throughput passive trapping of nanoparticles	8
From specialization to broad adoption: Key trends in droplet microfluidic innovations enhancing accessibility to non-experts	8
Tunable motile sperm separation based on sperm persistence in migrating through shear barriers	8
Time resolved luminescence of millisecond lifetime dyes in droplet microfluidic systems	8

A perspective on microfluidic impedance cytometry in cellular biophysical property analysis	7
Universal correlation for the critical diameter of deterministic lateral displacement devices with polygonal posts	7
A comprehensive review on electrically modulated transport of soft, multiphase systems in microflow: Perspectives on drops and vesicles	7
Microfluidic wearable electrochemical sweat sensors for health monitoring	7
Inertial focusing of particles and cells in the microfluidic labyrinth device: Role of sharp turns	7
Titrating chimeric antigen receptors on CAR T cells enabled by a microfluidic-based dosage-controlled intracellular mRNA delivery platform	7
Review on bile dynamics and microfluidic-based component detection: Advancing the understanding of bilestone pathogenesis in the biliary tract	7
Hematocrit skewness along sequential bifurcations within a microfluidic network induces significant changes in downstream red blood cell partitioning	7
Artificial blood for therapeutic and laboratory usage: Where do we stand?	7
Engineering a microfluidic platform for cell extravasation monitoring and downstream characterization of disseminated cells	6
Next-generation micro- and nanomachines for rapid infectious disease detection and precision therapy	6
Phenotyping of rare circulating cells in the blood of non-metastatic breast cancer patients using microfluidic Labyrinth technology	6
Recent advances in microfluidics and bioelectronics for three-dimensional organoid interfaces	6
Microfluidic technologies for advanced antimicrobial susceptibility testing	6
Microneedle arrays integrated with microfluidic systems: Emerging applications and fluid flow modeling	6
Visualizing liquid distribution across hyphal networks with cellular resolution	6
Ultraviolet control of bacterial biofilms in microfluidic chips	6
Lab-on-a-disc microfluidic platforms for molecular diagnostics, food safety, and environmental monitoring	6
Microfluidic detection of viruses for human health	6
The mechanism of biofilm detachment in porous medium under flow field	5
Spheroids formation in large drops suspended in superhydrophobic paper cones	5
Parallelized contactless microfluidic dispenser with superhydrophobic nozzles for scalable combinatorial screening	5
Microfluidic pumps for cell sorting	5
Automatic feedback control by image processing for mixing solutions in a microfluidic device	5
Scalable large-area mesh-structured microfluidic gradient generator for drug testing applications	5
Photo-addressable microwell devices for rapid functional screening and isolation of pathogen inhibitors from bacterial strain libraries	5
Directed evolution of biofilm production using double emulsion droplets	5
Contactless and rapid wetting of solid-state nanopore via ultrasonic wave	5
Water filling of microcavities	5
Directed colloidal assembly and banding via DC electrokinetics	5
Investigation of pressure balance in proximity of sidewalls in deterministic lateral displacement	5
Acoustohydrodynamic micromixers: Basic mixing principles, programmable mixing prospectives, and biomedical applications	5
An integrated experimental–computational study of mesenchymal stem cell dynamics in confined microfluidic systems	5
Rosette-induced separation of T cells by acoustophoresis	5
Deformability determines confined cancer cell migration efficiency with limited effect on directionality	4
Emerging trends in functional molecularly imprinted polymers for electrochemical detection of biomarkers	4
Harnessing the power of Microscale AcoustoFluidics: A perspective based on BAW cancer diagnostics	4
The role of acoustofluidics and microbubble dynamics for therapeutic applications and drug delivery	4
Point of care sepsis diagnosis: Exploring microfluidic techniques for sample preparation, biomarker isolation, and detection	4
Temperature-dependent microfluidic impedance spectroscopy for non-invasive biofluid characterization	4
Microbiosensors: Advancing diagnosis and prognosis through MEMS	4
Microfluidics-based patient-derived disease detection tool for deep learning-assisted precision medicine	4
All polymer microfluidic chips—A fixed target sample delivery workhorse for serial crystallography	4
Surface-dominant micro/nanofluidics for efficient green energy conversion	4
Microscopic analysis of angled particle transport in intestinal flow induced by moving textures on inner surfaces comparing native and pseudo–small intestines	4
Microbial stir bars: Light-activated rotation of tethered bacterial cells to enhance mixing in stagnant fluids	4
A perspective on computer vision in biosensing	4
Scaling up microdroplet production with post-array devices	4
Integrating an aerosolized drug delivery device with conventional static cultures and a dynamic airway barrier microphysiological system	4
Dual-wavelength volumetric stereolithography of multilevel microfluidic devices	4
3D collagen microchamber arrays for combined chemotherapy effect evaluation on cancer cell numbers and migration	4
In situ 3D polymerization (IS-3DP): Implementing an aqueous two-phase system for the formation of 3D objects inside a microfluidic channel	4
A bionic mimosa soft robot based on a multi-responsive PNIPAM-PEGDA hydrogel composition	4
Fabrication of cell-encapsulating hollow collagen microgel beads for engineered hollow tissues	4
Advances in point-of-care genetic testing for personalized medicine applications	4
A traveling surface acoustic wave-based micropiezoactuator: A tool for additive- and label-free cell lysis	4
A high throughput blood–brain barrier model incorporating shear stress with improved predictive power for drug discovery	3
A simple guideline for designing droplet microfluidic chips to achieve an improved single (bio)particle encapsulation rate using a stratified flow-assisted particle ordering method	3
Proton diffusion and hydrolysis enzymatic reaction in 100 nm scale biomimetic nanochannels	3
Enhancing single-cell biology through advanced AI-powered microfluidics	3
Recent advances in portable devices for environmental monitoring applications	3
A split-sample, virtual fluidic channel-based microfluidic platform for characterizing liquid viscosity and cellular stiffness	3
Pulsed acoustofluidic pipetting: An automated platform mimicking manual pipetting for accelerated cell staining	3
Strain-induced self-rolled-up microtubes for multifunctional on-chip microfluidic applications	3
Phototactic microswimmers in pulsatile flow: Toward a novel harvesting method	3
Vascularized platforms for investigating cell communication via extracellular vesicles	3
Multi-organ-on-a-chip: Modeling strategy, method, and biomedical applications	3
Microfluidics based bioimaging with cost-efficient fabrication of multi-level micrometer-sized trenches	3
Optimization of upstream particle concentration from flow using AC electro-osmosis and dielectrophoresis	3
A flexible strategy to fabricate trumpet-shaped porous PDMS membranes for organ-on-chip application	3
Micropatterning of functional lipid bilayer assays for quantitative bioanalysis	3
A perspective on machine learning applied to droplet microfluidics	3
Engineering advancements in microfluidic systems for enhanced mixing at low Reynolds numbers	3
A passive and programmable 3D paper-based microfluidic pump for variable flow microfluidic applications	3
Efficient single-cell oxygen consumption rate characterization based on frequency domain fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy measurement and microfluidic platform	3
Shape-memory microfluidic chips for fluid and droplet manipulation	3
Manipulation of magnetic beads for actively capturing Vibrio parahaemolyticus and nucleic acid based on microfluidic system	3
Microfluidic tools to model, monitor, and modulate the gut–brain axis	3
Microfluidics for the biological analysis of atmospheric ice-nucleating particles: Perspectives and challenges	3
Microfluidic-assisted fiber production: Potentials, limitations, and prospects	3