Elveflow Microfluidics, 172 Rue de Charonne, Paris (2025)

19/11/2025

🖐️ Elveflow helps: Accelerating Sepsis Detection

🩸 Sepsis affects nearly 50 million people every year and causes 13 million deaths, with survival rates dropping by 8% for every hour of delayed treatment. Rapid identification of pathogens and their antibiotic susceptibility is therefore vital.

🧫 In this study from Prof. Wouter van der Wijngaart’s team at KTH Royal Institute of Technology 🇸🇪, led by PhD researcher Henar Marino Miguélez, the researchers developed a culture-free method to isolate and identify bacteria from whole blood within 2 hours.

🧠 Their approach combines smart centrifugation, microfluidic trapping, and deep learning-based microscopy analysis, enabling the detection of E. coli, K. pneumoniae, and E. faecalis at clinically relevant concentrations as low as 7–32 CFU/mL.

💧 Precise flow control during the microfluidic trapping stage was achieved using Elveflow OB1 pressure controllers, ensuring stable and reproducible conditions for real-time bacterial capture and imaging.

⚙️ This study represents a major step toward rapid, culture-free sepsis diagnostics, bringing us closer to real-time pathogen detection in clinical environments.

📄 Read the full article:

[Culture-free detection of bacteria from blood for rapid sepsis diagnosis](https://go.nature.com/4oAQn9G)

🔬 Discover the most accurate pressure controller for microfluidics:

[OB1 by Elveflow](https://bit.ly/47tk85c)

12/11/2025

🖐️ Elveflow helps: Pushing the Limits of Pressure Sensitivity

💓 Accurate, continuous, and real-time physiological pressure monitoring is key to diagnosing and managing conditions such as intracranial hypertension and cardiovascular diseases. Yet, traditional fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors face a major limitation: low pressure sensitivity in biomedical environments.

🧪 In this study by Dr. Malhar Nagar (Politecnico di Torino 🇮🇹), researchers demonstrated a powerful strategy to overcome this limitation by coating FBGs with PDMS. The polymer layer significantly improved strain transfer, amplifying the Bragg wavelength shift and achieving up to 339-fold sensitivity enhancement compared to uncoated sensors.

💧 To validate these findings, the team designed a custom microfluidic pressure test bench using an Elveflow OB1 pressure controller to deliver precisely regulated pressures from 0 to 1000 mbar, coupled with Elveflow MPS pressure sensors for accurate readouts at both inlet and outlet.

⚙️ Their results bring FBG technology one step closer to real-time, minimally invasive pressure monitoring for applications ranging from pressure-guided catheters to smart wearable devices.

📄 Read the full article: Miniaturized polymer-coated FBGs for high-sensitivity biomedical pressure sensing https://bit.ly/4nw9yRc

🔬 Discover Elveflow MPS Pressure Sensors: https://bit.ly/47fAEHi

31/10/2025

🖐️ Elveflow helps: Enhancing Human Touch Perception

🔬 The team of Prof. Yan Yan Shery Huang (University of Cambridge 🇬🇧) has demonstrated how tactile augmentation can be achieved by collecting and analyzing triboelectric signals ⚡ generated when the skin interacts with different materials.

☝️ By using a substrate-less microfiber electrode placed on the finger, they formed a body-coupled triboelectric circuit capable of classifying materials with ≈95% accuracy through machine learning 🤖.

💧 To fabricate these microfiber electrodes, the team relied on an Elveflow OB1 microfluidic pressure controller to precisely feed the polymer solution during the printing process — ensuring reproducible fiber geometry and stable flow conditions, both essential for consistent signal acquisition.

✨ This work opens new possibilities for wearable tactile interfaces that can enhance human sensory perception and material recognition.

📄 Read the full article: Tactile Augmentation of Material Classification via Imperceptible On‐Skin Triboelectricity Collection https://bit.ly/47nYCil

⚙️ Discover the most accurate pressure controller for microfluidics: OB1 by Elveflow: https://bit.ly/47tk85c)

22/10/2025

🎀 Elveflow stands with Pink October 🎀

This month, the Elveflow team proudly joins the global movement to support breast cancer research and raise awareness for those affected by the disease.

At Elveflow, we are honored to stand alongside researchers who work every day to push scientific boundaries and develop technologies that bring hope and progress in the fight against cancer.

Together, let’s keep advancing science: for innovation, for care, and for life. 💗

15/10/2025

🌍 At Elveflow, our experts come to you, to help you install your equipment and get started with your experiments! 💡

🧳 Last week, Martyna had the pleasure of visiting the Lithuanian Energy Institute (LEI) 🇱🇹 to install a new Elveflow microfluidic and microfabrication setup and provide hands-on training to their research team 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬

🙏 We would like to warmly thank Paulius Vilkinis, Justas Sereika, Aiste Tilvikaite, and Brigita Zakeviciute for their kind welcome and the inspiring discussions! 💬✨

🔬 Their research spans from fundamental fluid mechanics, studying flow behavior and recirculation zones around microchannel obstacles, to micro-mixing for biodiesel production, and even fluid transport in plants, exploring how liquids move through root structures 🌿💧

🧩 The team uses the Elveflow microfabrication station to create their own chips and our OB1 pressure controller to precisely manage their microfluidic flows 🎛️

💫 We’re proud to support such multidisciplinary research bridging energy, biology, and microfluidics 🤝

🔗 Follow Lithuanian Energy Institute (LEI) and Justas Sereika to discover more about their projects!

10/10/2025

🌏 Meet Us at MicroTAS 2025 in Adelaide! 🇦🇺

Between November 2–6, 2025, Elveflow will be in Adelaide, Australia, for MicroTAS 2025, the annual microfluidics event gathering researchers and innovators from around the world.

👋 Sebastien and Martyna from our team will be there to meet you and discuss how Elveflow’s microfluidic systems can support your research.

📅 Don’t hesitate to contact us to schedule a meeting with them during the conference!

Stay tuned, some exciting surprises are on the way… isn’t it, ChipShop? 😉

09/10/2025

🎥 ElveVlog in England !

Expertise. Adaptability. Engagement.

These three words define the way we connect with the scientific community, by listening, learning, and sharing meaningful microfluidic insights.

First stop: the Microfluidics Consortium in Cambridge, organized by Peter Hewkin.

Discover the atmosphere of this event that gathered local researchers and pioneering microfluidics companies like HiComp, z-microsystems, Advanced Microfluidics (AMF), Micronit, IPFL or Rapid Fluidics. The day concluded with a dinner at the beautiful Christ’s College, where we reconnected with long-term partners like Darwin Microfluidics. The next day we had the chance to visit facilities of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy from the University of Cambridge and the offices of Comsol in Cambridge. Thanks for the tour!

Second stop: Imperial College in London

We took the opportunity of being in England to visit Imperial College London, meet our users, answer their technical questions, and better understand their ongoing challenges, because improving our instruments starts with listening to the people who use them every day. They all produce their own microfluidic chips in-house, relying on Elveflow systems to finely tune and stabilize flow conditions for their diverse research applications.

🔬 At South Kensington Campus, we met Marcus Fletcher and Zain Ahmad, both Postdoctoral Research Associates using Elveflow instruments in remarkably different ways. One to generate vesicles as synthetic cell models from a biological interaction perspective, and the other to optimize industrial grease-cleaning processes with microfluidics in collaboration with P&G.

🏥 At Hammersmith Campus, we exchanged with Jorge Bernardino de la Serna, Associate Professor, who is advancing lung-on-chip models using PDMS devices.

⚗ At White City Campus, we connected with Joseph van Batenburg-Sherwood and his PhD students Ioana Esanu and Gladys Guadalupe, investigating blood flow dynamics and how it influences endothelial cell behavior, a crucial step toward understanding vascular health.

Thanks for having us and save the date for the Microfluidics Consortium in Paris this November!

Louise and Camille

02/10/2025

🫧 Anyone who has worked with microfluidics knows how disruptive bubbles can be. They interrupt flow, skew experimental results, and sometimes even damage delicate samples. Detecting them early and acting fast can make the difference between a successful experiment and wasted time and resources.

That’s why we developed the Elveflow Microfluidic Bubble Detector, an inline optical sensor designed specifically for microfluidic setups.

✅ Detects bubbles in real time, non-invasively

✅ Works seamlessly with standard 1/16″ and 1/8″ OD tubing

✅ Integrates with your setup to trigger automated actions (pressure changes, valve switching, or fluid rerouting)

✅ Protects your samples and ensures reproducibility

It can be used alone with our sensor reader or fully integrated with the OB1 pressure controller for automation.

Learn how this small sensor can make a big impact on your experiments:

👉 Discover the Microfluidic Bubble Detector :https://bit.ly/4npqedH

30/09/2025

🚀 New ConferenceReport Released: Highlights from EFDC2 Dublin by Elveflow 🎯

We attended last month the 2nd European Fluid Dynamics Conference (EFDC2) in Dublin (Aug 26–29, 2025) and are proud to share our latest insights in this conference report: “EFDC2 Dublin Highlights with Elveflow.”

In this report, you’ll discover:
- The scale and scope of the event, over 900 oral presentations across 18+ thematic tracks
- Keynote leading names in turbulence, soft matter, wave dynamics, fluid–structure interactions, and more
- Trends in modeling, simulation, and data-driven methods in fluid dynamics

👉 Read the full report here: https://bit.ly/4nBhGRm

🔁 Feel free to share or tag colleagues who might find this relevant.

25/09/2025

🌍 Elveflow at the Microfluidic Consortium in Cambridge!

This week, Louise and Camille joined the Microfluidics Consortium organized by Peter Hewkin in Cambridge 🇬🇧.

They had the chance to attend inspiring presentations from local researchers such as Sebastian W. Krauss, Matt Penner, and Timo Kohler, as well as leading companies like AMF, z-microsystem and Hicomp. Louise also had the opportunity to give a talk about Elveflow’s expertise and influence. This consortium has been a great event to reconnect with existing partners, share our microfluidic knowledge and engage scientific discussions.

The program also included a memorable dinner at the beautiful Christ’s College, followed by a visit to the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge, thanks to Gang Xiong. The team also enjoyed a live demo of COMSOL tools at their premises, guided by Simon Derry.

Elveflow is proud to be part of this community and warmly thanks Peter Hewkin for his excellent organization.

✨ Stay tuned, more highlights from this exciting event are coming soon with Marco Donolato, Salman Samson, Tadas Kartanas, IMT, Micronit ...

22/09/2025

🧠 Yesterday was World Alzheimer’s Day, a moment to raise awareness for the more than 55 million people worldwide living with dementia, with Alzheimer’s disease being the most common form.

Despite decades of research, there is still no cure, and current treatments only slow progression or help manage symptoms.

The need for better solutions is opening the door to breakthrough approaches, including microfluidic brain-on-chip platforms. By recreating the complexity of the human brain at a microscale, these models allow researchers to study disease mechanisms and test therapeutic strategies in ways that traditional models cannot.

If you want to read more about how brain-on-chip technology could transform Alzheimer’s research, we’ve prepared a dedicated review:

👉 Read more here https://bit.ly/3IjCWLX

19/09/2025

🌍 Elveflow on the road to Bari, Italy!

This week, our colleagues Martyna and Sébastien traveled to the University of Bari to meet Prof. Marco de Tullio and his research group (Alessia Sportelli, Domenico Careccia, Dario De Marinis).

They carried out a successful microfabrication system installation followed by a dedicated training session, supporting the team in advancing their projects with hands-on expertise.

🤝 A big thank you to Prof. de Tullio and his group for their warm welcome and fruitful discussions, we look forward to seeing the outcomes of your exciting research!

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