Miniaturization and chip technology. What can we expect?*
Andreas Manz and Jan C. T. Eijkel
AstraZeneca/SmithKline Beecham Centre for Analytical
Sciences, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine South
Kensington, London SW7 2AY, England
Abstract: Miniaturization and chip technology play an important
role for analytical chemistry instrumentation in the future. A brief
theory of the relevant microfluidics with reasons for miniaturization
is given.
*Lecture presented at the IUPAC International Congress
on Analytical Sciences 2001 (ICAS2001), Tokyo, Japan, 6-10 August 2001.
Other presentations are published in this issue,
pp. 1555-1623.
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