The field of microfluidics and nanofluidics has continued to witness strong growth since Pacifichem 2005: the peer-reviewed publication rate in the microfluidics area has increased nearly 50% (papers/yr), and the diversity of applications continues to expand. There is a continued healthy and necessary focus on the physical science fundamentals for both micro- and nanofluidics, and an abundance of multidisciplinary 'real world' environmental, medical, diagnostic, and industrial applications are being built upon these fundamentals.
The symposium will cover methods, applications, and technology relating to micro- and nanofluidic devices intended for chemical or biochemical assays or synthesis. The unifying theme of the session is transport of sample or reagent constituents through micro-/nano-fabricated structures for accomplishing various assay or synthetic processes such as sample aliquoting, chemical derivitisation, concentration, filtration, separation and detection - real or modelled. The scope will encompass elucidation of fundamental mechanisms to development of sample analysis protocols. We will also consider commercial market and ethics survey papers that relate directly to the field.
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