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Cover
Front cover Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 4129 DOI: 10.1039/C1LC90121D

Front/Back Matter
Inside front cover Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 4130 DOI: 10.1039/C1LC90122B Contents list Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 4131 DOI: 10.1039/C1LC90123K

Highlight
Research highlights eila Selimovi , Omar Z. Fisher and Ali Khademhosseini, Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 4141 DOI: 10.1039/c1lc90119b

Focus
Droplet microfluidicsa tool for protein engineering and analysis Haakan N. Joensson and Helene Andersson-Svahn, Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 4144 DOI: 10.1039/c1lc90102h

Communication
Doping of a dielectric layer as a new alternative for increasing sensitivity of the contactless conductivity detection in microchips Renato Sousa Lima, Thiago Pinotti Segato, Angelo Luiz Gobbi, Wendell Karlos Tomazelli Coltro and Emanuel Carrilho, Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 4148 DOI: 10.1039/c1lc20757a

Papers
Automated and temperature-controlled micro-PIV measurements enabling long-termstable microchannel acoustophoresis characterization Per Augustsson, Rune Barnkob, Steven T. Wereley, Henrik Bruus and Thomas Laurell, Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 4152 DOI: 10.1039/c1lc20637k Ensembles of engineered cardiac tissues for physiological and pharmacological study: Heart on a chip Anna Grosberg, Patrick W. Alford, Megan L. McCain and Kevin Kit Parker, Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 4165 DOI: 10.1039/c1lc20557a Mass sensors with mechanical traps for weighing single cells in different fluids Yaochung Weng, Francisco Feij Delgado, Sungmin Son, Thomas P. Burg, Steven C.

Wasserman and Scott R. Manalis, Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 4174 DOI: 10.1039/c1lc20736a Microfluidic Wheatstone bridge for rapid sample analysis Melikhan Tanyeri, Mikhil Ranka, Natawan Sittipolkul and Charles M. Schroeder, Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 4181 DOI: 10.1039/c1lc20604d High-resolution cantilever biosensor resonating at airliquid in a microchannel Jungwook Park, Shuhei Nishida, Pierre Lambert, Hideki Kawakatsu and Hiroyuki Fujita, Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 4187 DOI: 10.1039/c1lc20608g Label-free detection of protein binding with multisine SPR microchips Tridib Ghosh, Layne Williams and Carlos H. Mastrangelo, Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 4194 DOI: 10.1039/c1lc20260j A microfluidic diffusion chamber for reversible environmental changes around flaccid lipid vesicles Sa a Vrhovec, Mojca Mally, Bla Kav i and Jure Derganc, Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 4200 DOI: 10.1039/c1lc20531e Microchip integrating magnetic nanoparticles for allergy diagnosis Bruno Teste, Florent Malloggi, Jean-Michel Siaugue, Anne Varenne, Frederic Kanoufi and Stphanie Descroix, Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 4207 DOI: 10.1039/c1lc20809h Multiplexing superparamagnetic beads driven by multi-frequency ratchets Lu Gao, Mukarram A. Tahir, Lawrence N. Virgin and Benjamin B. Yellen, Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 4214 DOI: 10.1039/c1lc20683d Partial-post laplace barriers for virtual confinement, stable displacement, and >5 cm s-1 electrowetting transport E. Kreit, B. M. Mognetti, J. M. Yeomans and J. Heikenfeld, Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 4221 DOI: 10.1039/c1lc20749k Combining rails and anchors with laser forcing for selective manipulation within 2D droplet arrays Etienne Fradet, Craig McDougall, Paul Abbyad, Rmi Dangla, David McGloin and Charles N. Baroud, Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 4228 DOI: 10.1039/c1lc20541b Patterning cells and shear flow conditions: Convenient observation of endothelial cell remoulding, enhanced production of angiogenesis factors and drug response Li Wang, Zhi-Ling Zhang, Joanna Wdzieczak-Bakala, Dai-Wen Pang, Jianmiao Liu and Yong

Chen, Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 4235 DOI: 10.1039/c1lc20722a DC-biased AC-electrokinetics: a conductivity gradient driven fluid flow Wee Yang Ng, Antonio Ramos, Yee Cheong Lam, I. Putu Mahendra Wijaya and Isabel Rodriguez, Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 4241 DOI: 10.1039/c1lc20495e Dielectrophoretic tweezers as a platform for molecular force spectroscopy in a highly parallel format Peng Cheng, Michael J. Barrett, Piercen M. Oliver, Deniz Cetin and Dmitri Vezenov, Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 4248 DOI: 10.1039/c1lc20627c A new method of UV-patternable hydrophobization of micro- and nanofluidic networks Rerngchai Arayanarakool, Lingling Shui, Albert van den Berg and Jan C. T. Eijkel, Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 4260 DOI: 10.1039/c1lc20716d

Technical Notes
A simple device for multiplex ELISA made from melt-extruded plastic microcapillary film Alexander D. Edwards, Nuno M. Reis, Nigel K. H. Slater and Malcolm R. Mackley, Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 4267 DOI: 10.1By Mary Bellis, About.com Guide
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New inventions of 2008 include: smog-earing cement, high altitude flying windmills, bionic contacts, pigurine plastic.

TX Active: Smog-Eating Cement

Courtesy of Italcementi Group TX Active is a self-cleaning and pollution-mitigating cement developed by the Italian company, Italcementi that can reduce pollution (nitric oxides) by up to 60%. TX Active contains a titanium dioxide based photocatalyzer. Through photocatalysis, the product reduces the maintenance requirements for

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Bionic Lens - New Active Contact Lens

University of Washington Inventor, Babak Parviz has invented a contact lens embeded with solar-powered leds and a radiofrequency receiver. Intially, Babak Parviz developed the contact lens to wirelessly communicate medical information about the health of the eye and wearer. However, other applications were soon realized. According to Parviz, "There are many possible uses for virtual displays. Drivers or pilots could see a vehicle's speed projected onto the windshield. Video-game companies could use the contact lenses to completely immerse players in a virtual world without restricting their range of motion. And for communications, people on the go could surf the Internet on a midair virtual display screen that only they would be able to see."

Flying Windmills - Wind Turbines That Harvest the Jet Stream

Sky Windpower

A San Diego company, Sky Windpower has invented flying wind turbines to be used in high-altitudes. The company estimates that just 1% of the energy from the jet stream could satisfy the energy demands of the entire planet. Sky Windpower's Bryan Roberts has long been convinced that high altitude wind energy can be captured. He has demonstrated that Flying Electric Generator(FEG) technology is practical and should work at high altitudes - this is the "Flying Windmills" technology.

Agroplast - Plastic Made from Pig Urine

The Danish company Agroplast has invented a way to transform pig urine into a common plastic precursor. The pig urea would replace urea derived from fossil fuels, reduce the waste from pig farming, and reduce the cost of plastic by up to 66%. According to Agroplast, traditionally, bioplastics made of vegetable matter have cost more than fossil fuel plastics. A cheap and available bioplastic could have an profound impact on our enviroment.

Sony's Sugar Battery

Sony The new bio battery will generate electricity from a sugar solution and will be used to run the 2008 Sony Walkman. The bio battery incorporates an anode consisting of sugar-digesting enzymes and mediator, and a cathode comprising oxygen-reducing enzymes and mediator, either side of a cellophane separator. Through a process of electrochemical reaction, electricity will be generated.

Camera Pill

Courtesy of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft In collaboration with engineers from Given Imaging, the Israelite Hospital in Hamburg and the Royal Imperial College in London, researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering have developed the first-ever control system for the camera pill. The camera pill can be swallowed by a patient. A doctor can move the camera pill by a magnetic remote control. The steerable camera pill consists of a camera, a transmitter that sends the images to the receiver, a battery and several cold-light diodes which briefly flare up

039/c0lc00357cNew inventions of 2009 include: a new computer interface called the sixth sense, and a
retinal implant for the blind.

SixthSense

Photo credit: Lynn Barry for SixthSense The SixthSense is a wearable gestural interface that lets natural hand gestures interact with digital information. In other words, it's the computer interface that you have watching in every science fiction film made in the last ten years. Imagine a watch appearing on your wrist when you tap on it, or a phone call being placed after tapping out a phone number on the palm of your hand. Still a prototype, the SixthSense's hardware components are coupled in a wearable device with a projector and a camera connected to the computer. The projector projects visual information enabling surfaces, walls and objects to be used as computer interfaces; while the camera tracks the user's hand gestures using computer-vision based techniques.

Electric Eyes - Retinal Implants

Image Courtesy Boston Retinal Implant Project The Retinal Implant Research Group has developed a microelectronic retinal implant to restore vision to patients with age-related macular degeneration and blindness. A microchip will be implanted into the patient's eyeball. A pair of glasses equipped with a tiny camera will transmit information to that microchip that will pass along recognizable visual information to the human brain, enough information to allow a blind person to navigate the room or recognize objects. Dr. Joseph Rizzo and Professor John Wyatt co-founded the Boston Retinal Implant Project (BRIP). The collaboration was initiated between the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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