Digital fluidics is the latest thing in "lab on a chip" technology.

数字流体是“片上实验室”技术的最新产物。

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Though prototype chips with optical-communications systems have been built in the lab, they rely on exotic materials that are difficult to integrate into existing chip-manufacturing processes.

虽然实验室里已经造出了原型芯片，但它们采用的特殊材料很难被整合到当今的芯片制造工艺中。

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Whitesides' paper chips are much simpler than other lab-on-chip projects, many of which require intricate production methods and heavier materials such as glass and plastic.

怀特赛兹教授的“纸芯片”相对于其他“芯片级实验室”方案来说要更加简便，其他的方案大多需要复杂的生产工艺并使用了诸如玻璃、塑料那样笨重的材料。

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Besides mixing, Dr Wixforth also showed how SAWs could channel fluids as part of more complex tasks on so-called microfluidic lab-on-a-chip devices.

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"We're not pasty guys in white lab coats droning on about chip specs, " he says.

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It aims to bring together advances in artificial intelligence, wireless sensing, imaging diagnostics, lab-on-a-chip, and molecular biology.

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