Preface and acknowledgement 1.Introduction: The Origin, Current Status and Future of Microfluidics 2.Fundamental Concepts and Physics in Microfluidics 3.Microfluidic Devices: Fabrication and Surface Modification 4.Numerical Simulation in Microfluidics and the Introduction of the Related Software 5.Digital microfluidics systems: principles, configurations, techniques, and applications 6.Microfluidics for Chemical Analysis 7.Microfluidics for Disease Diagnosis 8.Microfluidic Devices for Isolation of Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) 9.Gene expression analysis on microfluidic device 10.Computational Microfluidics Applied to Drug Delivery in Pulmonary and Arterial Systems 11.Microfluidic Synthesis of Organics 12.Microfluidic approaches for design of multifunctional polymeric microparticles: from simple emulsions to complex particles 13.Synthesis of magnetic nanomaterials 14.Microfluidic Synthesis of Metallic Nanomaterials 15.Microfluidic Synthesis of Composites and Hybrids 16.Microfluidic Synthesis of MOFs and MOF Based Membranes 17.Prospective for Microfluidics Skryť popis