Research progress on droplet sieving in microchannel
Droplet sieving is one of the basic operations of droplet microfluidic technology.Compared to the droplet sieving technology in traditional macroscopic equipment,the continuous operation of droplet sieving could be easily conducted in microfluidic equipment,and the whole process of droplet generation,sieving and collection could be continuously realized by using a microfluidic chip.This technology has been widely used in cell encapsulation,drug screening,gene analysis and other important fields.The droplet sieving based on microfluidic technology could be divided into active sieving and passive sieving.In this paper,the research progress of droplet sieving in microchannel in recent years is reviewed,and the future research directions and problems to be solved in this field are prospected.