Lab on a Chip is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 which publishes original (primary) research and review articles

Review journal

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 on any aspect of miniaturisation

Miniaturization

Miniaturization is the creation of ever-smaller scales for mechanical, optical, and electronic products and devices...

 at the micro

Lab-on-a-chip

A lab-on-a-chip is a device that integrates one or several laboratory functions on a single chip of only millimeters to a few square centimeters in size. LOCs deal with the handling of extremely small fluid volumes down to less than pico liters. Lab-on-a-chip devices are a subset of MEMS devices...

 and nano

Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology is the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally, nanotechnology deals with developing materials, devices, or other structures possessing at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometres...

 scale. Lab on a Chip is published monthly by the Royal Society of Chemistry

Royal Society of Chemistry

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 (RSC) and the editor-in-chief is Harp Minhas. The journal was established in 2001 and hosts other RSC publications: Highlights in Chemical Technology and Highlights in Chemical Biology. According to the Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal has a 2010 impact factor

Impact factor

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 of 6.260.

Subject coverage

Lab on a Chip publishes research at the micro- and nano-scale across a variety of disciplines including chemistry

Chemistry

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, biology

Biology

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, bioengineering

Biological engineering

Biological engineering, biotechnological engineering or bioengineering is the application of concepts and methods of biology to solve problems in life sciences, using engineering's own analytical and synthetic methodologies and also its traditional...

, physics

Physics

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, electronics

Electronics

Electronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies...

, clinical science

Clinical research

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, chemical engineering

Chemical engineering

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, and materials science

Materials science

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Article types

Lab on a Chip publishes full research papers, technical notes, urgent communications, critical and tutorial reviews, and mini-reviews.

See also

• List of scientific journals in chemistry
• List of scientific journals