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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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Erratum: “Mechanical interaction between a hydrogel and an embedded cell in biomicrofluidic applications” [Biomicrofluidics 19, 024104 (2025)]	72
Epithelial and mesenchymal phenotypes determine the dynamics of circulating breast tumor cells in microfluidic capillaries under chemotherapy-induced stress	45
Recent advances in label-free optical, electrochemical, and electronic biosensors for glioma biomarkers	31
Recent advances in microscale techniques for red blood cells manipulation	31
Nanogap traps for passive bacteria concentration and single-point confocal Raman spectroscopy	31
Thermal bubble single-cell printing chip: High-throughput, wide-field, and efficient	27
I-LIFT (image-based laser-induced forward transfer) platform for manipulating encoded microparticles	27
Trajectory analysis of Bacillus subtilis in micro-droplets	27
Lab-on-a-disk extraction of PBMC and metered plasma from whole blood: An advanced event-triggered valving strategy	26
Microflows in two-generation alveolar cells at an acinar bifurcation	25
Dynamic cellular responses to gravitational forces: Exploring the impact on white blood cell(s)	21
Synergy of robotics and microfluidics for intelligent micro- and nanomanipulation	20
Long-term cultured microvascular networks on chip for tumor vascularization research and drug testing	19
Preface to the Special Topic: Microfluidics, Circulating Biomarkers and Cancer	18
Design of a flexing organ-chip to model in situ loading of the intervertebral disc	18
pH effects on capture efficiency and deposition patterns in sessile droplet immunoassays: An XDLVO analysis	17
Recent advances in microfluidic-based spectroscopic approaches for pathogen detection	16
Simultaneous high-throughput particle-bacteria separation and solution exchange via in-plane and out-of-plane parallelization of microfluidic centrifuges	16
Potential of the acoustic micromanipulation technologies for biomedical research	15
Liver-on-a-chip: Considerations, advances, and beyond	15
The enhancement of DNA fragmentation in a bench top ultrasonic water bath with needle-induced air bubbles: Simulation and experimental investigation	15
Artificial intelligence-driven electrochemical immunosensing biochips in multi-component detection	15
Investigating the effect of phospholipids on droplet formation and surface property evolution in microfluidic devices for droplet interface bilayer (DIB) formation	14
Robotic automation of droplet microfluidics	14
What is the future of electrical impedance spectroscopy in flow cytometry?	14

Microfluidic sweat patch based on capillary force and evaporation pump for real-time continuous sweat analysis	14
Improved acoustic holograms using simulated annealing	13
Lateral force separation of biopolymers using an atomic force microscope	13
A microfluidic sucrose gap platform using trilaminar flow with on-chip switching and novel calibration: Challenges and limitations	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
Microfluidic-to-macrofluidic: A simple in vitro model of atherosclerosis induced by fluidic stimulation	12
Digital microfluidics methods for nucleic acid detection: A mini review	12
Paper-based microfluidics: Analyte-driven imbibition under the lens	11
Parallel study of transient dosing of antibiotics in a 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
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
On-chip dielectrophoretic device for cancer cell manipulation: A numerical and artificial neural network study	10
Continuous separation of bacterial cells from large debris using a spiral microfluidic device	10
A miniaturized culture platform for control of the metabolic environment	10
Cell pairing for biological analysis in microfluidic devices	10
Biphasic flow dynamics and polarized mass transportation in branched hepatic sinusoids	10
Manually pressurized droplet digital PCR chip for rapid SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics	10
Design automation for deterministic lateral displacement by leveraging deep Q-network	9
High-Q WGM microcavity-based optofluidic sensor technologies for biological analysis	9
Addressable microfluidics technology for non-sacrificial analysis of biomaterial implants in vivo	9
Brain organoid-on-a-chip: A next-generation human brain avatar for recapitulating human brain physiology and pathology	9
Laser induced graphanized microfluidic devices	9
Air microfluidics-enabled soft robotic transtibial prosthesis socket liner toward dynamic management of residual limb contact pressure and volume fluctuation	9
Recent advances in the understanding of alveolar flow	8
Organ-specific vasculature-on-a-chip systems	8
Micromixing within microfluidic devices: Fundamentals, design, and fabrication	8
Low-cost and convenient fabrication of polymer micro/nanopores with the needle punching process and their applications in nanofluidic sensing	8
Hepatic spheroid-on-a-chip: Fabrication and characterization of a spheroid-based in vitro model of the human liver for drug screening applications	8
Microfluidic synthesis as a new route to produce novel functional materials	8
Microfluidics-enabled functional 3D printing	8
Confinement effect on the microcapillary flow and shape of red blood cells	8
Mimicking blood and lymphatic vasculatures using microfluidic systems	8
An in vitro multi-organ microphysiological system (MPS) to investigate the gut-to-brain translocation of neurotoxins	7
Toward droplets displaying life-like interaction behaviors	7
Naturally derived colloidal rods in microfluidic flows	7
Referee acknowledgment for 2021	7
High-precision, cost-effective manufacturing of fused silica microchannels through CNC milling and detachable bonding	7
Recent advances in microfluidic-based cancer immunotherapy-on-a-chip strategies	7
Inkjet-printed microgel-based etalon sensor	7
Nano/microfluidic device for high-throughput passive trapping of nanoparticles	7
A high-throughput flowless microfluidic single and multi-solute concentration gradient generator: Design and parametric study	7
Developing a piezoresistive sensor based bionic neurological intraoperative monitoring system for spine surgery skill training	7
Perspective on fluorescence cell imaging with ionophore-based ion-selective nano-optodes	7
Engineering porous membranes mimicking in vivo basement membrane for organ-on-chips applications	7
Wall shear gradient dependent thrombosis studied in blood-on-a-chip with stenotic, branched, and valvular constructions	7
Organoid-on-a-chip: Current challenges, trends, and future scope toward medicine	7
Faradaic-free electrokinetic nucleic acid amplification (E-NAAMP) using localized on-chip high frequency Joule heating	7

A comprehensive review on electrically modulated transport of soft, multiphase systems in microflow: Perspectives on drops and vesicles	6
Microfluidic wearable electrochemical sweat sensors for health monitoring	6
From specialization to broad adoption: Key trends in droplet microfluidic innovations enhancing accessibility to non-experts	6
Titrating chimeric antigen receptors on CAR T cells enabled by a microfluidic-based dosage-controlled intracellular mRNA delivery platform	6
Extracellular vesicle and lipoprotein diagnostics (ExoLP-Dx) with membrane sensor: A robust microfluidic platform to overcome heterogeneity	6
Microfluidic system for near-patient extraction and detection of miR-122 microRNA biomarker for drug-induced liver injury diagnostics	6
Tunable motile sperm separation based on sperm persistence in migrating through shear barriers	6
Dean vortex-enhanced blood plasma separation in self-driven spiral microchannel flow with cross-flow microfilters	6
Nanoextraction based on surface nanodroplets for chemical preconcentration and determination	6
Phenotyping of rare circulating cells in the blood of non-metastatic breast cancer patients using microfluidic Labyrinth technology	6
The interaction of vortical flows with red cells in venous valve mimics	6
Artificial blood for therapeutic and laboratory usage: Where do we stand?	6
Microfluidic technology for multiple single-cell capture	6
A perspective on microfluidic impedance cytometry in cellular biophysical property analysis	5
Visualizing liquid distribution across hyphal networks with cellular resolution	5
Review on bile dynamics and microfluidic-based component detection: Advancing the understanding of bilestone pathogenesis in the biliary tract	5
The mechanism of biofilm detachment in porous medium under flow field	5
Microfluidic detection of viruses for human health	5
Spheroids formation in large drops suspended in superhydrophobic paper cones	5
A simple acoustofluidic device for on-chip fabrication of PLGA nanoparticles	5
Inertial focusing of particles and cells in the microfluidic labyrinth device: Role of sharp turns	5
Universal correlation for the critical diameter of deterministic lateral displacement devices with polygonal posts	5
Microfluidic technologies for advanced antimicrobial susceptibility testing	5
Photo-addressable microwell devices for rapid functional screening and isolation of pathogen inhibitors from bacterial strain libraries	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
Engineering a microfluidic platform for cell extravasation monitoring and downstream characterization of disseminated cells	5
Hematocrit skewness along sequential bifurcations within a microfluidic network induces significant changes in downstream red blood cell partitioning	5
Ultraviolet control of bacterial biofilms in microfluidic chips	5
Microneedle arrays integrated with microfluidic systems: Emerging applications and fluid flow modeling	5
Scalable large-area mesh-structured microfluidic gradient generator for drug testing applications	5
Directed colloidal assembly and banding via DC electrokinetics	5
Microfluidic pumps for cell sorting	5
A novel air microfluidics-enabled soft robotic sleeve: Toward realizing innovative lymphedema treatment	4
Temperature-dependent microfluidic impedance spectroscopy for non-invasive biofluid characterization	4
Automatic feedback control by image processing for mixing solutions in a microfluidic device	4
Harnessing the power of Microscale AcoustoFluidics: A perspective based on BAW cancer diagnostics	4
Point of care sepsis diagnosis: Exploring microfluidic techniques for sample preparation, biomarker isolation, and detection	4
A perspective on computer vision in biosensing	4
All polymer microfluidic chips—A fixed target sample delivery workhorse for serial crystallography	4
Water filling of microcavities	4
Giardia purification from fecal samples using rigid spiral inertial microfluidics	4
In situ 3D polymerization (IS-3DP): Implementing an aqueous two-phase system for the formation of 3D objects inside a microfluidic channel	4
Microbial stir bars: Light-activated rotation of tethered bacterial cells to enhance mixing in stagnant fluids	4
The role of acoustofluidics and microbubble dynamics for therapeutic applications and drug delivery	4
Microfluidic cell sorter sample preparation for genomic assays	4
An integrated experimental–computational study of mesenchymal stem cell dynamics in confined microfluidic systems	4
A bionic mimosa soft robot based on a multi-responsive PNIPAM-PEGDA hydrogel composition	4
Rosette-induced separation of T cells by acoustophoresis	4
Microfluidics-based patient-derived disease detection tool for deep learning-assisted precision medicine	3
Surface-dominant micro/nanofluidics for efficient green energy conversion	3
Dual-wavelength volumetric stereolithography of multilevel microfluidic devices	3
Low-cost and cleanroom-free prototyping of microfluidic and electrochemical biosensors: Techniques in fabrication and bioconjugation	3
Micropatterning of functional lipid bilayer assays for quantitative bioanalysis	3
Vascularized platforms for investigating cell communication via extracellular vesicles	3
Engineering advancements in microfluidic systems for enhanced mixing at low Reynolds numbers	3
Multi-organ-on-a-chip: Modeling strategy, method, and biomedical applications	3
Emerging trends in functional molecularly imprinted polymers for electrochemical detection of biomarkers	3
Advances in point-of-care genetic testing for personalized medicine applications	3
A traveling surface acoustic wave-based micropiezoactuator: A tool for additive- and label-free cell lysis	3
A high throughput blood–brain barrier model incorporating shear stress with improved predictive power for drug discovery	3
Nucleation kinetics of calcium oxalate monohydrate as a function of pH, magnesium, and osteopontin concentration quantified with droplet microfluidics	3
A passive and programmable 3D paper-based microfluidic pump for variable flow microfluidic applications	3
Microfluidic-assisted fiber production: Potentials, limitations, and prospects	3
Deep learning assisted mechanotyping of individual cells through repeated deformations and relaxations in undulating channels	3
3D collagen microchamber arrays for combined chemotherapy effect evaluation on cancer cell numbers and migration	3
Integrating an aerosolized drug delivery device with conventional static cultures and a dynamic airway barrier microphysiological system	3
Microbiosensors: Advancing diagnosis and prognosis through MEMS	3
RapidQ: A reader-free microfluidic platform for the quantitation of antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein	3
Microfluidics for the biological analysis of atmospheric ice-nucleating particles: Perspectives and challenges	3
Droplet-based valveless microfluidic system for phage-display screening against spheroids	3
Phototactic microswimmers in pulsatile flow: Toward a novel harvesting method	3
Strain-induced self-rolled-up microtubes for multifunctional on-chip microfluidic applications	3
Scaling microfluidic throughput with flow-balanced manifolds to simply control devices with multiple inlets and outlets	3
Scaling up microdroplet production with post-array devices	3