Focus articles
Sumita Pennathur from the University of California, Santa Barbara, co-ordinates a regular series of mini-reviews that are tightly focused on recent research. These articles cover trends in recent research, focus on potential new areas of research or even potential applications. Aiming to inform the reader about such recent trends, bring forgotten papers back into the spotlight and perhaps most importantly, to provide a perspective of a particular subject as well as a critical evaluation of it that may help researchers to plan future research. Six mini-reviews will be published each year.

2008 articles
Lab on paper
Lab Chip, 2008, 8, 1988
DOI: 10.1039/b814043j
Optofluidics: field or technique?
Lab Chip, 2008, 8, 1856
DOI: 10.1039/b816416a
Simulation tools for lab on a chip research: advantages, challenges, and thoughts for the future
Lab Chip, 2008, 8, 1424
DOI: 10.1039/b812596c
Multiphase flow in lab on chip devices: A real tool for the future?
Lab Chip, 2008, 8, 1010
DOI: 10.1039/b808974b
Improving fluorescence detection in lab on chip devices
Lab Chip, 2008, 8, 649
DOI: 10.1039/b805064n
Flow control in microfluidics: are the workhorse flows adequate?
Lab Chip, 2008, 8, 383
DOI: 10.1039/b801448p
How to exploit the features of microfluidics technology
Lab Chip, 2008, 8, 20
DOI: 10.1039/b717986n
2007 articles
Scaling revisited
Lab Chip, 2007, 7, 1630
DOI: 10.1039/b716545p
Energy conversion in microsystems: is there a role for micro/nanofluidics?
Lab Chip, 2007, 7, 1234
DOI: 10.1039/b712893m
Chip-based HPLC: the quest for the perfect column
Lab Chip, 2007, 7, 815
DOI: 10.1039/b707464f
Single cells or large populations?
Lab Chip, 2007, 7, 544
DOI: 10.1039/b704632b
Liquid slip in micro- and nanofluidics: recent research and its possible implications
Lab Chip, 2007, 7, 299
DOI: 10.1039/b700364c
Nanowire electrochemical sensors: can we live without labels?
Lab Chip, 2007, 7, 19
DOI: 10.1039/b616805c
2006 articles
Young 4ever—the use of capillarity for passive flow handling in lab on a chip devices
Lab Chip, 2006, 6, 1405
DOI: 10.1039/b613839j
Labs-on-a-Chip: origin, highlights and future perspectives
On the occasion of the 10th µTAS conference
Lab Chip, 2006, 6, 1266
DOI: 10.1039/b612120a
More than technology alone
Lab Chip, 2006, 6, 838
DOI: 10.1039/b607997k
Active transport: a new chemical separation method?
Jan C. T. Eijkel and Albert van den Berg, Lab Chip, 2006, 6, 597
DOI: 10.1039/b605305j
Where are the biologists?
A series of mini-reviews covering new trends in fundamental and applied research, and potential applications of miniaturised technologies
Lab Chip, 2006, 6, 467
DOI: 10.1039/b602048h
Nanotechnology for membranes, filters and sieves
A series of mini-reviews covering new trends in fundamental and applied research, and potential applications of miniaturised technologies
Lab Chip, 2006, 6, 19
DOI: 10.1039/b516903h
