Microfluidics for Pharmaceutical Applications: From Nano/Micro Systems Fabrication to Controlled Drug Delivery

ISBN-13: 9780128126592 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 495 str.

Helder A. Santos; Dongfei Liu; Hongbo Zhang

Spis treści

Section I: Principle of microfluidics 1. Lab-on-a-Chip technology and microfluidics2. Fluid properties and hydrodynamics of microfluidic systems3. Diffusion and mixing in microfluidic device4. Microfluidic production of multicomponent multiple emulsions

Section II: Microfluidics for drug delivery applications 5. Microfabrication and Microfluidic Devices for Drug Delivery6. Lab-on-a-chip preparation routes for organic nanomaterials for drug delivery7. Microfluidic mixing and devices for preparing nanoparticulate drug delivery systems8. Microfluidic production of inorganic nanomaterials for biomedical applications9. Lab-on-a-chip synthesis of microparticles for drug encapsulation and controlled release10. Microfluidic technologies for local drug delivery11. Droplet-based microfluidics for cell encapsulation and delivery12. Antibody discovery using microfluidic systems13. Single-cell screening using microfluidic systems

Section III: Microfluidics for analysis and drug delivery14. Lab-on-a-chip techniques for high throughput proteomics and drug discovery15. Microfluidics for chemical analysis and sample manipulation for pharmaceutical applications

Section IV: Future prospective and commercialization of microfluidic techniques16. Future of microfluidics in research and in the market