What Is Lab on a Chip
A lab-on-a-chip (LOC) is a device that integrates one or several laboratory functions on a single integrated circuit of only millimeters to a few square centimeters to achieve automation and high-throughput screening. LOCs can handle extremely small fluid volumes down to less than pico-liters. Lab-on-a-chip devices are a subset of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices and sometimes called “micro total analysis systems” (�TAS). LOCs may use microfluidics, the physics, manipulation and study of minute amounts of fluids. However, strictly regarded “lab-on-a-chip” indicates generally the scaling of single or multiple lab processes down to chip-format, whereas "�TAS” is dedicated to the integration of the total sequence of lab processes to perform chemical analysis. The term “lab-on-a-chip” was introduced when it turned out that �TAS technologies were applicable for more than only analysis purposes.
How You Will Benefit
(I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:
Chapter 1: Lab-on-a-chip
Chapter 2: Assay
Chapter 3: Dielectrophoresis
Chapter 4: Immunoassay
Chapter 5: Electrophysiology
Chapter 6: Microfluidics
(II) Answering the public top questions about lab on a chip.
(III) Real world examples for the usage of lab on a chip in many fields.
(IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of lab on a chip' technologies.
Who This Book Is For
Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of lab on a chip.
