Abstract
Microfluidics is a branch of physics and biotechnology, having emerged only in the 1990' s that studies the behaviour of fluids at the microscale and mesoscale.
Microfluidics is also defined operationally as dealing with micro machined devices that process fluids at the micro-scale for performing single functions or integrating multiple functions such as:
- Sample dilution
- Sample injection
- Sample and reagents metering
- Mixing, incubation and components separation
Microfluidics serves to miniaturize and integrate processes that were previously done at larger scale in separate operations.
Miniaturization permits both increased speed of analysis as well as minimization of sample and reagent consumption.
For example, using a microfluidic chip, a Sanger DNA sequencing run can be completed in 30 minutes or less versus 2 hours or more by conventional capillary electrophoresis.
Table of Contents
1.Executive Summary
2.Market analysis methodology
3.Introduction
4.Microfluidic applicative markets
- Microfluidic applicative roadmap
- Microfluidic applicative segment description
- Microfluidic market and forecast
- Description of the main microfluidic products
5.Microfluidic technologies
- Detailed analysis of most microfluidic technologies
- Comparative analysis of microfluidic technologies
- Microfluidic technologies segmentation per application
6.Microfluidic industrial food chain
- Microfluidic industrial food chain
- Main microfluidic players and geographical breakdown
- Focus on polymer microfluidic industrial food chain
6 different business models
- Example of collaborations
7.Special focus - the diagnostic market
- Overview of the diagnostic market
- Evolution of the diagnostic market, a market driver for microfluidics
- Microfluidic component market and forecast (2005 - 2015)
- Microfluidic technologies for diagnostic
- Microfluidic components value chain in diagnostic
- Key ingredients to implement microfluidics in diagnostic
