High Throughput Microfluidics

微流体是一个研究领域，它试图将通常在完整的生物或化学实验室中完成的合成和分析任务缩小到“芯片”上，类似于电子学如何将曾经充满房间的计算机缩小到单个芯片上。 微流体技术，也称为芯片实验室，在过去的几十年中取得了许多进步，显示出使用非常小的流体体积的优势，例如低试剂使用量，以及高度受控和均匀的反应条件。 然而，这些进步对工业，特别是化学合成的影响是最小的，因为这些系统的吞吐量是在毫升/小时的数量级。

Microfluidics is an area of research that seeks to take synthesis and analysis tasks normally done in a full biology or chemistry lab and shrink them down onto a “chip”, similarly to how electronics took computers that used to fill a room and shrunk them down onto a single chip. Microfluidics, also called Lab-on-a-Chip, has seen many advancements in the last couple of decades showing the advantages of working with very small fluid volumes, such as low reagent usage, and highly controlled and uniform reaction conditions. However, the promised impact of these advancements on industry, especially in chemical synthesis, has been minimal because the throughput of these systems is in the order of ml/hr.