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• Article | 17 August 2020

  Monolithic digital patterning of polydimethylsiloxane with successive laser pyrolysis

  A laser-based patterning method enables the fast fabrication of high-quality two- and three-dimensional features in polydimethylsiloxane for microfluidics and biomedical applications.

  • Jaeho Shin
  • , Jihoon Ko
  •  & Seung Hwan Ko

• Article | 16 October 2017

  Sequential bottom-up assembly of mechanically stabilized synthetic cells by microfluidics

  A microfluidics method to generate giant, copolymer-stabilized liposomes is presented. These vesicles are functionalized with distinct proteins to recapitulate cellular processes.

  • Marian Weiss
  • , Johannes Patrick Frohnmayer
  •  & Joachim P. Spatz

• Letter | 24 October 2016

  Instrumented cardiac microphysiological devices via multimaterial three-dimensional printing

  Heart-on-a-chip devices with integrated strain gauges for direct readout of tissue contractile strength allow for multiplexed drug-dose experiments and studies of functional maturation of cardiac tissue.

  • Johan U. Lind
  • , Travis A. Busbee
  •  & Kevin K. Parker

• Letter | 10 October 2016

  Single-platelet nanomechanics measured by high-throughput cytometry

  A high-throughput hydrogel-based platelet-contraction cytometer is able to quantify single-platelet contraction forces and may function as a clinical diagnostic biophysical biomarker.

  • David R. Myers
  • , Yongzhi Qiu
  •  & Wilbur A. Lam

• Research Highlights | 23 July 2013

  Multiplexed for detection

  • Pep Pàmies