![]() Although the emergence of soft lithography techniques and the use of elastomers have greatly simplified fabrication 8, such processes are still highly dependent on professional facilities and expert operators and therefore remain unreachable to many unequipped laboratories, not to mention the on-site deployment of microfluidics in resource-limited settings. However, fabricating a custom microfluidic chip can be expensive, laborious, and very time consuming. That is, there is an increasing demand for customized microfluidic systems featuring various applications. Nevertheless, microfluidics technology is in its development stage, and the potential of microfluidics has yet to be fully exploited. Apart from the original use in chemical analysis 1, the unmatched advantages of microfluidics, such as low consumption of reagents, fast reaction speed, and high throughput 2, have brought forth endless possibilities in a large range of subjects, such as chemical synthesis 3, materials science 4, 5, biology 6, and clinical diagnosis 7. The usefulness of microfluidics cannot be overestimated in today’s scientific research. ![]()
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