Xu Li

TL;DR: At the current stage of its development, paper-based microfluidic system is claimed to be low-cost, easy-to-use, disposable, and equipment-free, and therefore, is a rising technology particularly relevant to improving the healthcare and disease screening in the developing world, especially for those areas with no- or low-infrastructure and limited trained medical and health professionals.

TL;DR: A new method for making microfluidic patterns on a paper surface using plasma treatment is reported, which retained the flexibility of paper and a variety of patterns could be formed.

TL;DR: A novel method for the fabrication of paper-based microfluidic diagnostic devices is reported; it consists of selectively hydrophobizing paper using cellulose reactivehydrophobization agents to create hydrophilic-hydrophobic contrast patterns which has excellent ability to control capillary penetration of aqueous liquids in paper channels.

TL;DR: This paper describes a new and simple concept for fabricating low-cost, low-volume, easy-to-use microfluidic devices using threads, which have potential applications in human health diagnostics, environmental monitoring, and food safety analysis, and are particularly appropriate for the developing world or remote areas, because of their relatively low fabrication costs.

TL;DR: The porous and superhydrophobic shell of a liquid marble prevents contact of its liquid core with outside surfaces, but allows gas transport, and liquid marbles loaded with different indicators can simultaneously sense different gases via different mechanisms.