We've had microfluidics.We've even had nanofluidics.But now,scientists have gone a step smaller bypushing femtofluidics into the realms of possibility.
Droplet microfluidics enables assays and reactions to be performed in droplets of reagent that are just a few nanolitres or picolitres in volume.The main advantages of this are that reactions can be performed in a massively parallel manner using hardly any reagent,and further miniaturisation to give femtolitre droplets promises to enable even higher-throughput with even lower reagent use.
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Droplet-based microfluidics at the femtolitre scale*
Marie Leman,Faris Abouakil,Andrew D.Griffiths and Patrick Tabeling
Lab Chip,2015,Advance Article
DOI:10.1039/C4LC01122H
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