Researchers at Stanford have invented a platform to manipulate droplets in a synchronized manner. Magnetic fields combined with patterned soft magnet arrays on a substrate, provide a clocking signal to the magnetic droplets.
Researchers at Stanford have developed the paperfuge- an ultra-low cost (20 cents), light weight (2g) field portable centrifuge (125,000 rpm; 30,000 g RCF) made out of paper that runs on human power.
This light-weight, hand-held, mechanical microfluidic device is designed to perform complex protocols in low resource settings without a power source or external control element. Developed by researchers in Prof.