Zooming in to acquire micro-reaction: Application of microfluidics on soil microbiome

Zhang, Xiongkun; Wu, Shuke; Sun, Xiang; Mortimer, Monika; Wu, Yichao; Zhang, Ming; Huang, Qiaoyun; Cai, Peng

doi:10.1007/s42832-021-0073-7

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“…Microbial processes in soil are complicated by the physically and chemically structured environment, which is characterized by the porous soil architecture, diverse components and interfacial properties, coupled with the heterogeneous distribution of water, solutes, gases, and microbes. ,, Mechanistic understanding of the diversity, functions, and global ecological significance of soil microbes are still lack . Microfluidics is rapidly transforming the study of microbiology. − Multiple features make microfluidics a promising technology for exploring soil microbial processes . Micro/nanofabrication technologies allow cultivating and observing microbes from the single-cell to the population level, as well as the cocultivation of multispecies, in artificial soil habitats .…”

Section: Microfluidics For Investigating Soil Microbial Processesmentioning

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“…80−82 Multiple features make microfluidics a promising technology for exploring soil microbial processes. 83 Micro/ nanofabrication technologies allow cultivating and observing microbes from the single-cell to the population level, 84 as well as the cocultivation of multispecies, 85 in artificial soil habitats. 13 The microenvironments, such as temperature, 86 oxygen, 87 flows, and chemical gradients, 88 can be precisely manipulated as being constant or oscillating, homogeneous or heterogeneous.…”

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Microfluidics as an Emerging Platform for Exploring Soil Environmental Processes: A Critical Review

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Environ. Sci. Technol.

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Investigating environmental processes, especially those occurring in soils, calls for innovative and multidisciplinary technologies that can provide insights at the microscale. The heterogeneity, opacity, and dynamics make the soil a “black box” where interactions and processes are elusive. Recently, microfluidics has emerged as a powerful research platform and experimental tool which can create artificial soil micromodels, enabling exploring soil processes on a chip. Micro/nanofabricated microfluidic devices can mimic some of the key features of soil with highly controlled physical and chemical microenvironments at the scale of pores, aggregates, and microbes. The combination of various techniques makes microfluidics an integrated approach for observation, reaction, analysis, and characterization. In this review, we systematically summarize the emerging applications of microfluidic soil platforms, from investigating soil interfacial processes and soil microbial processes to soil analysis and high-throughput screening. We highlight how innovative microfluidic devices are used to provide new insights into soil processes, mechanisms, and effects at the microscale, which contribute to an integrated interrogation of the soil systems across different scales. Critical discussions of the practical limitations of microfluidic soil platforms and perspectives of future research directions are summarized. We envisage that microfluidics will represent the technological advances toward microscopic, controllable, and in situ soil research.

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Microfluidics as an Emerging Platform for Exploring Soil Environmental Processes: A Critical Review

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Yan

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Environ. Sci. Technol.

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“…It has emerged as a fascinating technology in diverse biological research areas due to its perfect size matching effect with biological samples ( Sackmann et al, 2014 ; Scheler et al, 2019 ; Hu et al, 2021 ). In recent years, microfluidics has demonstrated great potential for revolutionizing the microbiome research, and it is believed that its universal application will promote our understanding of the microbiome ( Ballard et al, 2018 ; Zhang et al, 2022 ). This review will introduce recent developments in applying microfluidics to study the microbiome.…”

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Emerging microfluidic technologies for microbiome research

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Front. Microbiol.

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The importance of the microbiome is increasingly prominent. For example, the human microbiome has been proven to be strongly associated with health conditions, while the environmental microbiome is recognized to have a profound influence on agriculture and even the global climate. Furthermore, the microbiome can serve as a fascinating reservoir of genes that encode tremendously valuable compounds for industrial and medical applications. In the past decades, various technologies have been developed to better understand and exploit the microbiome. In particular, microfluidics has demonstrated its strength and prominence in the microbiome research. By taking advantage of microfluidic technologies, inherited shortcomings of traditional methods such as low throughput, labor-consuming, and high-cost are being compensated or bypassed. In this review, we will summarize a broad spectrum of microfluidic technologies that have addressed various needs in the field of microbiome research, as well as the achievements that were enabled by the microfluidics (or technological advances). Finally, how microfluidics overcomes the limitations of conventional methods by technology integration will also be discussed.

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The Next Frontier of 3D Bioprinting: Bioactive Materials Functionalized by Bacteria

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VCH. B) Fabrication of eggshell membrane-inspired bioresponsive devices using 3D printing Reproduced with permission. [69] Copyright 2020, American Chemical Society C) Digital design and fabrication of 3D multi-material structures with programmable biohybrid surfaces. Reproduced with permission. [70] Copyright 2019, Wiley-VCH. D) 4D printing ELMs capable of multiple shape change and drug delivery devices. Reproduced with permission. [60] Copyright 2021, Wiley-VCH .

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Zooming in to acquire micro-reaction: Application of microfluidics on soil microbiome

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Microfluidics as an Emerging Platform for Exploring Soil Environmental Processes: A Critical Review

Microfluidics as an Emerging Platform for Exploring Soil Environmental Processes: A Critical Review

Emerging microfluidic technologies for microbiome research

The Next Frontier of 3D Bioprinting: Bioactive Materials Functionalized by Bacteria

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