Applications
Within our recent FlowMap market study, we have identified six major fields of commercial interest for microfluidic technologies:
- printing
- life sciences
- chemical process engineering
- industrial automation
- indutrial dispensers
- power systems
Among them, ink-jet is certainly the most mature and commercially successful technology. The biggest growth potential for microfluidic- and nanofluidic is, however, seen in the fields of the life sciences:
- biotechnology
- drug discovery
- medicine
- environmental monitoring