Nobel Symposium 162 - Microfluidics

TL;DR

This symposium volume reviews the historical milestones, current advancements, and future prospects of microfluidics, highlighting its diverse applications in industry and fundamental research through invited speaker contributions.

Contribution

It compiles a comprehensive overview of microfluidics development, integrating early breakthroughs, recent progress, and future directions from leading researchers.

Findings

Historical overview of microfluidics milestones

Current applications in industry and research

Future development prospects

Abstract

The Nobel Foundation's Symposium programme was initiated in 1965 and since then over 160 symposia have taken place. With the Nobel symposium summarized in this proceedings volume, we had the ambition to cover the past, current and future developments of microfluidics; a highly challenging task as there are many excellent researchers in this area and only thirty slots in the program. We tried to cover the early breakthrough contributions to the field, important developments over the years and applications of microfluidics that now propagate in vastly different directions both as industrial components or processes and as tools and methods supporting fundamental research. To give the entire research community an opportunity to sample the science presented at the symposium we have compiled a symposium volume that reflects the major messages conveyed by our invited speakers. We are deeply grateful to the effort that our participants put into writing their lecture notes/abstracts.