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Yoon-Kyoung Cho is a full professor in Biomedical Engineering at UNIST. In this contribution she describes a fully integrated and automated lab-on-a-disc using centrifugal microfluidics to provide a "sample-in and answer-out" type of…
Emergent macroscopic descriptions of matter, such as hydrodynamics, are central to our description of complex physical systems across a wide spectrum of energy scales. The conventional understanding of these many-body phenomena has recently…
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Driven by fundamental thermodynamic efficiency considerations, an emerging trend in the energy and propulsion systems is that the working fluid operates at a pressure above the critical pressure. Energy transport is thus accompanied by…
Advances in molecular biology are enabling rapid and efficient analyses for effective intervention in domains such as biology research, infectious disease management, food safety, and biodefense. The emergence of microfluidics and…
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