Meet the editor

Prof. S. M. Sohel Murshed was born in Bangladesh and obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is currently a professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Previously, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow and visiting professor and scientist at different universities in Singapore, the USA, the UK, and India.

He received the prestigious DUO-India Professorial Fellowship Award in 2020. Prof. Murshed has authored/co-authored 8 books, 28 book chapters, and over 160 papers in leading international journals and conferences. A number of his papers have been classified as Highly Cited Papers and his current citation is 6850 with an h-index of 30. Prof. Murshed was recently named in the list of the World's Top 2% Scientists.

Contents

and Nanofluids Technologies *by S.M. Sohel Murshed*

*by Susanne Seibt and Timothy Ryan*

Microfluidic Flow Sensing Approaches

*and Nan Zhang*

*by Liji Huang*

Assessment (LCA)

Applications

Utilization, and Storage

 *Juan C. Cruz and Johann F. Osma*

*by Meijie Chen, Xingyu Chen and Dongling Wu*

*by Ronald Nguele, Katia Nchimi Nono and Kyuro Sasaki*

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 11**

**Chapter 3 33**

**Chapter 4 55**

**Chapter 5 81**

**Chapter 6 93**

**Chapter 7 109**

**Chapter 8 131**

Micro Milling Process for the Rapid Prototyping of Microfluidic Devices

*by Olga P. Fuentes, Mabel J. Noguera, Paula A. Peñaranda, Sergio L. Flores,*

Solar Thermal Conversion of Plasmonic Nanofluids: Fundamentals and

Nanocomposite and Nanofluids: Towards a Sustainable Carbon Capture,

Introductory Chapter: An Overview of Advances in Microfluidics

Microfluidics for Time-Resolved Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering

Prototyping and Production of Polymeric Microfluidic Chip *by Honggang Zhang, Haoyang Zhang, Tianyu Guan, Xiangyu Wang* 

*by Muhammad Syafiq Rahim and Abang Annuar Ehsan*

Micromixers for Wastewater Treatment and Their Life Cycle
