Microdroplet Technology: Principles and Emerging Applications in Biology and Chemistry

Preface.- Physics of multiphase microflows and microdroplets.- Microfluidic droplet manipulations and its applications.- Active control of droplet formation process in microfluidics.- Recent advances in electrowetting microdroplet technologies.- Automated droplet microfluidic chips for biochemical assays.- The dropletisation of bio-reactions.- Droplet-based microfluidics as a biomimetic principle: from PCR-based virus diagnotics to a generalized concept for handling of biomolecular information.- Droplet microreactors for materials synthesis.- Single-cell analysis.- Trends and perspectives.