Microfluidic Horizons 2026

Session

Thursday 21/05, 9 - 13; Room 35

Th1-B

May 21, 2026, 9:00 AM

118. A Microfluidics-Based Platform for 3D Printing Architected, Functionally Graded Polymer Foams

5/21/26, 10:00 AM

Microfabrication and device engineering

Oral

Functionally graded materials offer a powerful conceptual framework for designing compositionally graded mechanical responses from a single material. Such a material will enable the tailoring and tuning of physico-mechanical properties across the structure. However, the existing manufacturing techniques for developing functionally graded polymer foams face challenges in integrating the...

22. From Low to High Throughput: Microfluidic-Powered 3D Bioprinting

Maede Pajouhande

5/21/26, 10:20 AM

Microfabrication and device engineering

Oral

Despite significant advances in 3D bioprinting, achieving high printing speed, efficiency, and homogeneity in biological samples remains challenging. These limitations restrict its practical application in tissue engineering, particularly in fabricating complex tissues such as skeletal muscle. Microfluidics offers promising strategies to overcome several of these issues.

This project...

78. A printable OECT for simple integration in capillary-driven diagnostic assays

5/21/26, 10:40 AM

Microfabrication and device engineering

Oral

In 2003, the World Health Organization summarized key requirements for diagnostic tests through the ASSURED criteria (affordable, sensitive, specific, user-friendly, rapid, equipment-free, delivered), which continue to guide the design of accessible, reliable point-of-care (POC) technologies. Advances in microfluidics and portable instrumentation have accelerated the adoption of POC...

128. Polymeric Smart Carriers by Microfluidic , for encapsulation of labile biomolecules in triple breast cancer fight

5/21/26, 11:40 AM

Microfabrication and device engineering

Oral

Microfluidic technologies offer unique control over the synthesis of polymeric particles enabling precise encapsulation strategies for labile therapeutic agents. In this work, we report a microfluidic approach for the generation of micronsize templated polymeric particles designed for the encapsulation of labile anticancer drugs targeting triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Using...

56. Encapsulated Leidenfrost Droplets: Thermal Antibubble in Microgravity

5/21/26, 12:40 PM

Space and microgravity research

Oral

Antibubbles are fluid objects consisting of a liquid droplet encapsulated by a thin gaseous shell and fully immersed in a surrounding liquid. Their stability is typically limited by gas drainage and shell rupture, making them short-lived under terrestrial conditions. When the encapsulated droplet is composed of a volatile liquid and the surrounding medium is superheated, evaporation-driven gas...