Workshop is part of the SelectBIO Lab-on-a-Chip and Microfluidics World Congress 2025, November 17-19, 2025.
As technologies mature, they are incorporated into product applications, and as applications mature, standards often evolve around them. The development of standards serves the purposes of consumer convenience and user/bystander safety, and they can be driven by industry and supported by governments. Examples in science include oscilloscopes and power supplies that use BNC and banana plug connectors, manual or robotic lab pipettors for sample preparation that adopt the 9-mm spacing standards for 96-well microtiter plates, and fluidic connections that use Luer lock connectors.
The purpose of this workshop is to look at the evolution of standardised approaches in microfluidics products, product development, and research. The increased use of standards in microfluidics is an important step, as it may facilitate widespread acceptance by removing barriers such as incompatible connectors, inconsistent technical terminology, unsuitable materials, and unquantified or uncharacterized figures of merit.
Our workshop speakers will tell us about what their organisations do, and how standardisation in their operations facilitates the development of microfluidic products by drawing from a library of standard microfluidic components or processes. This, in turn, leads to faster and more predictable development stage, which ultimately benefits their customers, and the microfluidic community at large.
More information and registration via the folloing link: Lab-on-a-Chip and Microfluidics World Congress 2025