"WHAT DOES NOT NEED TO BE BIG, WILL BE SMALL," a word by an engineer at a recent conference on chips technology. This sentence is particularly true for chemistry. Microfabrication technology emerged from microelectronics into areas like mechanics and now chemistry and biology. The engineering of micron and submicron sized features on the surface of silicon, glass and polymers opens a whole new world. Micromotors smaller than human hair have been fabricated and they work fine. It is the declared goal of the authors to bring these different worlds together in this volume. Authors have been...

Microfabrication technology emerged from microelectronics into such areas as mechanics, chemistry and biology. The engineering of micron- and submicron-sized features on the surface of silicon, glass and polymers opens a whole new world. Here, the authors seek to bring together these different worlds in one volume, covering the multidisciplinary field of micro-system technologies applied to problems in chemistry, biochemistry and biology. It treats various aspects of the fabrication technologies of devices and their applications in systems like planar chips for capillary electrophoresis,...