Micro Total Analysis Systems.Recent Developments

摘要

The area of micro total analysis systems (//TAS),also called "lab on a chip"or miniaturized analysis systems,is growing rapidly.This paper represents an update of the earlier reviews (1,2)and covers the period from March 2002 to February 2004.The intention of this review paper is to provide help for a novice in the field to find the original papers.Publications in the area of //TAS are scattered over a larger number of journals,but most frequently articles can be found in Lab on a Chip,Analytical Chemistry,Electrophoresis,Sensors & Actuators,and others.Excellent sources of information are also conference proceedings from regular international meetings such as //TAS,Transducers,and HPCE.However,not all active groups participate in these conferences regularly.An on-line keyword search resulted in more than 3000 hits for the years 2002 and 2003.For this survey,we focused on about 1000 of these articles.Many publications about