Chips & Tips

Chips & Tips is a unique and regularly updated forum for scientists in the miniaturisation field. Chips & Tips is an online resource hosted by the Journal Lab on a Chip. Chips & Tips aims to provide a place where ideas and solutions can be exchanged on common practical problems encountered in the lab, which are seldom reported in the literature.

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Chips & Tips was launched in 2006 and is moderated by David Beebe of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Glenn Walker of North Carolina State University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Article format

Chips & Tips pages are brief practical tips for the miniaturisation community. Pictures, videos and schematics are encouraged.

Audience/readership

Industrial and academic sectors, including: all areas of chemistry; biology; pharmaceuticals; medicine; analytical science; synthesis; biotechnology; BioMEMS; physics; material science; bioengineering and electronics.